Description:

Tiny rufous-brown crake with white markings, similar to Little Crake. Adult has rufous-brown upperparts, extensively marked with white. Flanks are barred. Bill and legs are green. Juvenile has buff underparts; compared with Little, wings are shorter, barring on underparts more extensive.

Distribution:

Common passage migrant through the western half of Gilgit-Baltistan, rarely in Baltistan. Prefers freshwater to saline wetlands or watercourses with dense vegetation or reed-beds, marshes and flooded meadows, up to 3000m during migration.

Behavior:

Forages on mud, probing and taking prey from surface, and in shallow water, occasionally to belly depth, immersing bill to seize prey; often forages while walking on floating vegetation and broken reeds, and while swimming. Feeds mostly on adult and larval aquatic insects; also molluscs, small crustaceans, small fish, green plant material, and seeds.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Baillon's Crake in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Baillon's Crake

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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