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corn·crake

(kôrn′krāk′)

A common bird (Crex crex) of Eurasia and Africa, having a short bill and brownish-yellow plumage and found in grain fields and meadows.

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corncrake

(ˈkɔːnˌkreɪk)

(Animals) a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings

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corncrake - common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields

Crex crex, land rail

crake - any of several short-billed Old World rails

Crex, genus Crex - corncrakes

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Wachtelkönig

ruisrääkkä

corncrake

[ˈkɔːnkreɪk] N → guión m de codornices

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Silent, like sorrowing children, the birds have ceased their song, and only the moorhen's plaintive cry and the harsh croak of the corncrake stirs the awed hush around the couch of waters, where the dying day breathes out her last.

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Hence it will cause him no surprise that there should be geese and frigate-birds with webbed feet, either living on the dry land or most rarely alighting on the water; that there should be long-toed corncrakes living in meadows instead of in swamps; that there should be woodpeckers where not a tree grows; that there should be diving thrushes, and petrels with the habits of auks.

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It is tiny Argyll island, which is best known for its corncrake population and large sand dunes.

Coll could be famous for having best breakfast; AWARDS

DONCASTER: 1.40 Buyer Beware, 2.10 Powertrain, 2.45 Grisons, 3.20 La Sioux, 3.55 Celsius, 4.25 Corncrake, 5.00 Warning Fire.

THE LAIRD'S TOP TIPS

This most western, faraway reach is one of the last redoubts of the disappearing corncrake. Catch its calling while you can.

Scotland the Best

These birds include songbirds, farmland birds, woodland birds and seabirds such as the Curlew, Hen Harrier, Corncrake, Lapwing, Woodcock, Puffin, Kittiwake, Turtle Dove, Cuckoo, Merlin, Skylark, Starling, Song Thrush, Nightingale, Herring Gull and the Yellowhammer.

Hamish Hamilton to publish The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss

The inaugural Corncrake Festival began yesterday on the island of Inishbofin off the coast of Co Galway.

Crunch festival for at-risk corncrakes

This does not need to be the case and we can secure populations of species, such as the delightful corncrake, a bird with a distinctive rasping call.

Why a greener economy should be all our business

| While I was watching Wheatear and Jays, the second Corncrake of the autumn was found across the water on Bardsey.

BIRD NOTES With Julian Hughes

What sort of creature is a corncrake? A A snake B A mouse C A weasel D Abird 13.

PUZZLESX tra Get your thinking caps on! The Chronicle 8 PULL-OUT PAGE

A chapter on Scottish corncrake conservation--consisting of the ins and outs of inscribing the actual birds in the socioculture milieus of grass-cutting crofters, research regimes that measure and track corncrake populations to generate papers and evidence, and how the evidence industry of policy-impacting science eventually leads to building networks of legibility at local and then European Union-wide levels to produce the necessary conservation monies and legislation to harmoniously avert species endangerment--is both entertaining and sadly quixotic.