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What is a corncrake?

What is a corncrake? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A bird of the rail family, Crex crex, that breeds in meadows and arable farmland across Europe and western Asia, migrating to Africa in winter.
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The project foresees the production of a national corncrake Action Plan and management plans for each of the three sites.
The latest evidence is that corncrake numbers have severely declined in the Valley.
Like other crakes the corncrake was more prone than most to colliding with overhead wires.
Notable animal species are wolf, otter, sea eagle, imperial eagle, peregrine falcon, corncrake and lesser kestrel.
I hear my first corncrake in a patch of irises by a roadside croft and spend a tantalising and unsuccessful half-hour trying to get a glimpse of it.
The note of this little bird seems to be of a ventriloquial character like that of the landrail or corncrake.

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