Red-necked Crake
Photo · A.B. Meyer

BirdUp · Species

Red-necked Crake

Rallina tricolorGray, GR, 1858

Native
Order
GRUIFORMES
Family
Rallidae
Genus
Rallina
Commonness
Common
Best seen
Year-round

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

The red-necked crake is a waterbird in the rail and crake family, Rallidae.

Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

02 · Where

Where to find it

Breeding range
Talaud Is. (north-east of north-east Sulawesi), north and south Moluccas, New Guinea and satellites, Mussau, Lavongai (=New Hanover), New Ireland (north-east Bismarck Arch.) and north-east Cape York Pen., north-east QLD (north-east Australia)

03 · When

When to look

Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.

  1. Jan
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  12. Dec

05 · Behaviour

Habits and haunts

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