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Aenigmatolimnas marginalis |
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Porzana marginalis |
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Marouette rayée |
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Striped Crake |
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Brownish bird with striped upperparts and russet flanks. |
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The Striped Crake is an african bird but probably migrates within the continent as a function of the rains. Nidification takes placeduring the rainy season and this bird is only seen in Katanga between December and March. All the observations known of in the Katanga have been made in the far south of the province. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us.
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