White-browed Crake
Poliolimnas cinereus· 秧鸡科(3 photos)
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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.
