White-browed Crake
UncommonGBIF 31.9·Dongniao Rarity Index8.08
英文名：White-browed Crake（学名：Poliolimnas cinereus），是鹤形目秧鸡科的鸟类。17–18 厘米。热带秧鸡，黑色顶冠，黑色脸上具两道白色纵纹；尾下覆羽纯暖皮黄色。幼鸟：色较褐，顶冠不明显；颈部皮黄色较浓。单只、成对：在浅水中觅食，行走于浮水植物上，攀爬于枝条间，抽动尾羽；常与其他秧鸡混群。
White-browed Crake
17-18 cm. Tropical crake with black cap and two white lines on blackish face; undertail-coverts plain warm buff. Juvenile: browner, with faint cap; buffer on neck. Singles, pairs: forages in shallows, walks on floating vegetation, climbs in branches, flicks tail; associates with other rails.
- Voice
- nasal grunts, squeaks; soft 'churr'; chattering 'cutchee cutchee', in chorus.
- Habitat
- reeds, rank grass, waterlilies, floating vegetation in swamps; mangroves, woodland edges near or over water; sewage ponds.
- Breeding
- most months.
- Nest
- shallow cup of rushes; on platform with canopy of stems; among swamp vegetation; tussock in water, low branches.
- Eggs
- 4-5 (6); oval, green-white to yellow-brown, with fleecy dots, spots, blotches of yellow-brown to dull chestnut.
- Range & Status
- coastal n. Aust. and islands from w. Kimberley (WA) to c. Townsville (Q). Probable winter migrant to PNG. Also Malaysia to New Cal. Fiji, Samoa.
