Brown Crake
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| Brown Crake | |
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| At Hodal in Faridabad District of Haryana, India. | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Amaurornis |
| Species: | A. akool |
| Binomial name | |
| Amaurornis akool (Sykes, 1832) |
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The Brown Crake (Amaurornis akool[2] ), or Brown Bush-hen, is a waterbird in the rail and crake family (Rallidae) found in South Asia.
[edit] References
- ^ BirdLife International (2004). Amaurornis akool. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 10 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern.
- ^ Note: the name "akool" is from the Sinhalese name for the moorhen, "kukkula".Aasheesh Pittie. "A dictionary of scientific bird names originating from the Indian region". http://www.bnhsenvis.nic.in/Vol%209%20(2)dictionary.pdf. Retrieved April 27, 2009.[dead link]
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