Black Crake / Zapornia flavirostra
Black Crake bird information | Values |
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Conservation status | LC - Least concern |
Synonyms | African Black Crake, Black Rail, Black waterhen |
Old latin name for bird | Amaurornis niger, Limnocorax flavirostris, Amaurornis flavirostris, Rallus niger, Limnocorax niger, Amaurornis flavirostra, Limnocorax flavirostra, Gallinula flavirostra, Porzana flavirostra |
Order | Cranes, rails and relatives / Gruiformes |
Family | Rails, Crakes & Coots / Rallidae |
Genus | Zapornia |
Breeding region | Africa |
Breeding subregion | widespread |
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Where to see Black Crake
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo
- Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Black Crake subspecies (0)
Translation
Language | Translation |
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Afrikaans | Swartriethaan |
Azerbaijani | qara çivdimdik |
Bulgarian | Африканска пъструшка |
Catalan | polla negra |
Chinese | 黑苦恶鸟 |
Chinese (Traditional) | 黑苦惡鳥 |
Croatian | crna štijoka, Crni štijoka |
Czech | chřástal žlutozobý, Chrástal žlutozobý |
Danish | Sort Rørvagtel |
Dutch | Zwart Porseleinhoen, Zwart Poseleinhoen, Zwarte waterral, Zwarte Kwartelkoning |
Esperanto | Nigra galinolo, Flavbeka amaŭrornito |
Estonian | musthuik |
Finnish | mustahuitti |
French | Marouette noire, Râle à bec jaune, Poule d'eau noire, Râle noir, Marouette noire à bec jaune, Marouette à bec jaune |
Frisian | Swart reidhintsje |
Galician | Poliña negra |
German | Negerralle, Schwarzkielralle, Mohrenralle, Mohrensumpfhuhn |
Greek | Αφρικαvική μαυρoπoυλάδα |
Hungarian | Fekete vízicsibe, mór vízicsibe |
Icelandic | Sótrella |
Irish | Crág dhubh Afracach |
Italian | Rallo nero, Schiribilla nera africana, Galinella nera |
Japanese | アフリカクロクイナ |
Latvian | melnais ormanītis |
Lithuanian | Juodoji žaliasnapė vištelė, juodasis amaurornis, Afrikinė juodvištė |
Macedonian | Црна барска кокошка |
Northern Sami | Čáhppesjeaggevuonccis |
Norwegian | svartrikse, Svartrikse |
Norwegian Nynorsk | Svartrikse |
Polish | kureczka czarna |
Portuguese | franga-de-água-preta, franga-d'água-preta |
Romanian | Cresteţ negru |
Russian | Африканский чёрный погоныш, Чёрный погоныш, Африканский чёрный пастушок |
Serbian | Afrički crni barski petlić, Crni barski petlić |
Shona | Nhapata |
Slovak | chriašť mníšsky, chriašteľ mníší |
Slovenian | vranja tukalica |
Spanish | Polluela Negra, Polluela negra africana |
Swahili | Kiluwiri Mweusi |
Swedish | korprall, korpsumphöna |
Tsonga | Hukunambu |
Turkish | Kara Afrika Yelvesi, Kara Suyelvesi |
Ukrainian | багновик африканський |
Welsh | Rhegen ddu Affrica |
Zulu | umJekejeke |