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title: "Codornizão"
description: "Crex crex — Aves. The corn crake, corncrake or landrail (Crex crex) is a bird in the rail family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/corn-crake
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Codornizão

> Crex crex — Aves. The corn crake, corncrake or landrail (Crex crex) is a bird in the rail family.

- Scientific name: *Crex crex*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Campos e prados)
- iNaturalist observations: 4529
- Wikidata: [Q26017](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26017)
- iNaturalist taxon: [443](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/443)

## Names

- en: Corn Crake
- de: Wachtelkönig
- es: Rey de Codornices
- fr: Râle des genêts
- nl: Kwartelkoning
- pt: Codornizão
- pl: Derkacz

## Countries with the most observations

RU (2839), UA (132), FI (112), PL (106), DE (102), GB (76), LT (76), AT (47), BY (40), IL (33), IT (33), CZ (31)

## Summary

The corn crake, corncrake or landrail (Crex crex) is a bird in the rail family. It breeds in Europe and Asia as far east as western China, and migrates to Africa for the Northern Hemisphere's winter. It is a medium-sized crake with buff- or grey-streaked brownish-black upperparts, chestnut markings on the wings, and blue-grey underparts with rust-coloured and white bars on the flanks and undertail. The strong bill is flesh-toned, the iris is pale brown, and the legs and feet are pale grey. Juveniles are similar in plumage to adults, and downy chicks are black, as with all rails. There are no subspecies, although individuals…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_crake

## Photo

![Codornizão](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/corn-crake/medium.jpg)

Photo: Лариса Артемьева · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/81582977

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/corn-crake?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).