Description:

A very small crake, similar to Baillon's Crake, with red at base of bill. Male is blue-grey below. Female has blue-grey on supercilium and cheeks, but underparts are buff. Juvenile is similar to female, but with whiter face and breast, and more extensive barring on flanks (but less than on Baillon's).

Distribution:

Uncommon 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 while swimming, wading or walking over stems and leaves; takes food from mud, water surface or vegetation but does not probe; also dives. Diet mostly insects, especially water beetles and adult and larval flies, and also seeds of aquatic plants; worms, gastropods, spiders and water mites, and aquatic vegetation such as young shoots.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Little Crake in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Little 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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