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Corn crake

The corn crake, corncrake or landrail (Crex crex) is a bird in the rail family. It breeds in Europe and Asia as far east as western China, and migrates to Africa for the Northern Hemisphere's winter. It is a medium-sized crake with buff- or grey-streaked brownish-black upperparts, chestnut markings on the wings, and blue-grey underparts with…

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Corn crake

Nodes160
Edges159
Triples181
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.0125
Components1

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related to Distribution and habitat · 26
Corn crake → Africa, African, Although, Britain, China, Congo, December, Democratic Republic, Eurasia, Europe, February, Ireland, KwaZulu-Natal, Most, North, North Africa, Old, Siberia, South Africa, South African
related to External links · 20
Corn crake → Andrew MarvellThe Landrail, Archived, Audio, Avibase, Birds, Corn, Corncrake, Crex, Drexel University, Field Guide, FlickrFeathers, Internet Bird Collection, John ClareCorn, Lord Fairfax, Southern African Birds, The Atlas, VIREO, Wayback MachineUpon Appleton House, World, Xeno-canto
related to Status · 19
Corn crake → Adults, Asiatic Russia, Eurasian, Europe, European Russia, Finland, Haymaking, In, It, IUCN Red List, Kazakhstan, Mechanisation, Netherlands, Russia, The, There, UK, Until, World War II
related to Behaviour · 16
Corn crake → Africa, African, Barra, Chicks, Flocks, For, If, In Africa, It, Its, Migration, Occasionally, Scottish, The, Tiree, When
related to In literature · 16
Corn crake → And Chance, Andrew Marvell's, Corn, Grass' Root, Hight, It, North Yorkshire, Rail, Sithe, The, Thomas Fairfax, To, Unhappy Birds, Upon Appleton House, What, When Lowness
related to Taxonomy · 15
Corn crake → African, Although, Bechstein's, Carl Linnaeus, Corn, Crecopsis, Crex, German, Greek, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Old World, Rallus, Systema Naturae, The, The English
related to Description · 13
Corn crake → Adults, Africa, African, August, Compared, In, Males, Outside, September, The, There, While, Young
related to Predators and parasites · 12
Corn crake → American, At, Gabon, Haemaphysalis, In Lithuania, Ixodes, Plagiorchis, Predators, Prosthogonimus, The, There, When
related to Feeding · 10
Corn crake → As, Chicks, Food, Hunting, In, Indigestible, Its, Sitona, The, This
related to Breeding · 9
Corn crake → Although, Females, He, It, The, They, Until, Usually, Where

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crake corn breeding may birds species also call africa range although bird grass chicks western nest wintering much crex europe

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Corn crakeis aAfrican crake0.90text
Corn crakeis amedium-sized rail0.90text
Corn crakeis adifficult bird to see in its breeding sites0.90text
cerealsinstance ofbut locally-grown crops0.80text
peasinstance ofbut locally-grown crops0.80text
rapeinstance ofbut locally-grown crops0.80text
clover or potatoes may be usedinstance ofbut locally-grown crops0.80text
common reedinstance ofadults move to taller vegetation0.80text
irisinstance ofadults move to taller vegetation0.80text
or nettles to moultinstance ofadults move to taller vegetation0.80text
returning to the hayinstance ofadults move to taller vegetation0.80text
silage meadows for the second broodinstance ofadults move to taller vegetation0.80text

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