Baillon’s Crake
Zapornia pusilla
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Rails, Gallinules, and Coots (Rallidae)
- Order
- Gruiformes
Overview
Baillon's crake (Zapornia pusilla), also known as the marsh crake, is a small waterbird of the family Rallidae.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Countries
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Chad
- China
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Denmark
- DR Congo
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Malta
- Mauritania
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Poland
- Republic of the Congo
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Western Sahara
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Baillon's 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.
