Water Rail
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/36755
- Note
- The water rail (Rallus aquaticus) is a bird of the rail family which breeds in well-vegetated wetlands across Europe, Asia and North Africa. Northern and eastern populations are migratory, but this species is a permanent resident in the warmer parts of its breeding range. The adult is 23–28 cm (9–11 in) long, and, like other rails, has a body that is flattened laterally, allowing it easier passage through the reed beds it inhabits. It has mainly brown upperparts and blue-grey underparts, black barring on the flanks, long toes, a short tail and a long reddish bill. Immature birds are generally similar in appearance to the adults, but the blue-grey in the plumage is replaced by buff. The downy chicks are black, as with all rails. The former subspecies R. indicus, has distinctive markings and a call that is very different from the pig-like squeal of the western races, and is now usually split as a separate species, the brown-cheeked rail.
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Wasserralle (Rallus aquaticus)
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Object information
Image: Museum der Westlausitz Kamenz - CC BY-SA -
Wasserralle
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Object information
Image: Deutsches Damast- und Frottiermuseum - CC BY-NC-SA
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