Water Rail at Parc Slip

Gruiformes

Place: Parc Pond, Parc Slip Nature Reserve, Aberkenfig, Bridgend
Date: 8 January 2019.









[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).