Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum (Dec 2023)

SECOND OBSERVATION OF AFRICAN CRAKE CRECOPSIS EGREGIA (PETERS, W, 1854) (GRUIFORMES, RALLIDAE) IN AlGERIA

  • Fouad Bederra,
  • Noura Hadouch,
  • Abdeslam Arab-Saïd,
  • Abdelkarim Lachich,
  • Amal Belghit,
  • bdennour Ketfi,
  • Moustapha Souahlia,
  • Massoud Demouche,
  • Leila Bougherab,
  • Leila Amzel,
  • Abdelwahab Chedad

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26842/binhm.7.2023.17.4.0541
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 4
pp. 541 – 548

Abstract

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On December 6, 2022, a single individual of African Crake Crecopsisegregia(Gruiformes, Rallidae) was recoveredin the Algerian Sahara at Illizi City. This observation is considered the second in Algeria after the first at Kerzaz in Béni Abbès dated November 27, 2020.

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