Place: Bird hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 18 December 2017.
[Rallus aquaticus, Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Water rail]
The sound of the water rail (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)
Distribution and sightings of the water rail across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 