Baillon's Crake

Baillon's Crake

Porzana pusilla

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
at Camargue
1 Verified sightings at Camargue From 2019 to 2026
205 Verified sightings across all 24 parks From 2019 to 2026
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted during daytime hours (6am–6pm)

About the Baillon's Crake

Baillon's crake (Zapornia pusilla), also known as the marsh crake, is a small waterbird of the family Rallidae. Their breeding habitat is sedge beds and swamps, ranging from Eastern Europe to Honshu in Japan. The total breeding population in Europe as of 2016 was suspected to be 4,000 to 9,000 individuals. They used to breed in Great Britain up to the mid-19th century, but the Hungarian population declined in the 20th century due to wetland drainage. There has been a recovery in north-western Europe in recent years, with the recolonisation of Germany and the Netherlands, and breeding suspected in Britain; an Irish record in 2012 was the first there since the 1850s. They nest in dry locations in wet sedge bogs, laying 4–8 eggs. This species is migratory, wintering in East Africa and South Asia, as well as being a resident breeder in Africa and Australasia.

There is a single North American record of this species on Attu Island in September 2000. There are at least five subspecies of Baillon's crake: Zapornia pusilla affinis in New Zealand Zapornia pusilla palustris in Australia and New Guinea

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Closest Relatives at Camargue

Spotted Crake
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Spotted Crake

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Porzana porzana

Daily sighting probability <5% · Rare
Eurasian Coot
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Eurasian Coot

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Fulica atra

Daily sighting probability ~40% · Likely
Common Moorhen
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Common Moorhen

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Gallinula chloropus

Daily sighting probability ~20% · Possible
Water Rail
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Water Rail

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Rallus aquaticus

Daily sighting probability ~20% · Possible
Western Swamphen
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Western Swamphen

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Porphyrio porphyrio

Daily sighting probability <5% · Rare
Common Crane
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Common Crane

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Grus grus

Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck

Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Amboseli National Park 🇰🇪 Kenya
<5%
2 Fiordland National Park 🇳🇿 New Zealand
<5%
3 Keoladeo National Park 🇮🇳 India
<5%
4 Grampians National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
<5%
5 Great Otway National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
<5%
6 Blue Mountains National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
<5%
7 Ngorongoro Conservation Area 🇹🇿 Tanzania
<5%
8 Kruger National Park 🇿🇦 South Africa
Insufficient data
9 Table Mountain National Park 🇿🇦 South Africa
Insufficient data
10 Hwange National Park 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
Insufficient data
11 Lake Nakuru National Park 🇰🇪 Kenya
Insufficient data
12 Garden Route National Park 🇿🇦 South Africa
Insufficient data
13 Abel Tasman National Park 🇳🇿 New Zealand
Insufficient data
14 Sundarbans National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
15 Moremi Game Reserve 🇧🇼 Botswana
Insufficient data
16 Camargue 🇫🇷 France
Insufficient data
17 Fertő-Hanság National Park 🇭🇺 Hungary
Insufficient data
18 Doñana National Park 🇪🇸 Spain
Insufficient data
19 Kanha National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
20 Chobe National Park 🇧🇼 Botswana
Insufficient data
21 Serengeti National Park 🇹🇿 Tanzania
Insufficient data
22 Raja Ampat 🇮🇩 Indonesia
Insufficient data
23 Kakadu National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
Insufficient data
24 Sierra Nevada National Park 🇪🇸 Spain
Insufficient data
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