Ruddy-breasted crake (Zapornia fusca), or ruddy crake

#Ruddy-breasted crake

 (Zapornia fusca), or ruddy crake

#Saryuwetland

#Ayodhya

Uttar Pradesh

January 2022

Nikon Gears

Full screen mode recommended for details

*First time clicked in Ayodhya,very beautiful, vibrant coloured and very shy so really very difficult to click*.

ruddy-breasted crake is a waterbird in the rail and crake family Rallidae. Its breeding habitat is swamps and similar wet areas across South Asia from the Indian subcontinent east to south China, Japan and Indonesia

This is a waterbird in the rail and crake family.

Small, chickenlike inhabitant of marshes, vegetated river edges, ditches, wet croplands, sometimes dry fields. Brown above, with orange from lower cheek to lower breast. Similar to Band-bellied Crake, but more brightly colored and lacks white wing markings. Retiring and difficult to see but not uncommon in some locations. Most often detected by song, an accelerating series of beeping notes, given from cover in early morning and evening.