Little Crake
Zapornia parva
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Rails, Gallinules, and Coots (Rallidae)
- Order
- Gruiformes
Overview
The little crake (Zapornia parva) is a very small waterbird of the family Rallidae. parva is Latin for "small". This species was long included in the genus Porzana.
Its breeding habitat is reed beds in Europe, mainly in the east, and just into western Asia.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds locally in Europe eastward to western Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and western Xinjiang; winters Mediterranean to Africa and India.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Belarus
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Burundi
- Cape Verde
- Chad
- China
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- DR Congo
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Estonia
- Finland
- Gabon
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Hungary
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Mali
- Malta
- Mauritania
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Poland
- Republic of the Congo
- Romania
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
- Western Sahara
- Yemen
- Zambia
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Little crake
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
