Brown Crake

Brown Crake
At Hodal in Faridabad District of Haryana, India.
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Amaurornis
Species: A. akool
Binomial name
Amaurornis akool
(Sykes, 1832)

The Brown Crake (Amaurornis akool[2] ), or Brown Bush-hen, is a waterbird in the rail and crake family (Rallidae) found in South Asia.

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2004). Amaurornis akool. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 10 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern.
  2. ^ Note: the name "akool" is from the Sinhalese name for the moorhen, "kukkula".Aasheesh Pittie. "A dictionary of scientific bird names originating from the Indian region". http://www.bnhsenvis.nic.in/Vol%209%20(2)dictionary.pdf. Retrieved April 27, 2009.