Rails, Crakes & Coots

Ocellated Crake

Micropygia schomburgkii

The Ocellated Crake (Micropygia schomburgkii) is a 31 g grassland bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. Some populations migrate.

Family

Rails, Crakes & Coots

Order

Gruiformes

Weight

31 g

Habitat

Grassland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Partial migrant

Countries recorded

9

Photo: (c) Vincent A. Vos, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist