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Baillon's Crake (Zapornia pusilla)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks September · Rails, Gallinules, and Coots · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Baillon's Crake (Zapornia pusilla)
Tisha Mukherjee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Baillon's Crake: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Baillon's Crake has been recorded in 9 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in September.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
SE82East Riding of Yorkshire, England42021unverified
NU23Northumberland, England62019unverified
SD34Lancashire, England12016unverified
TR06Kent, England32001 to 2014unverified
TQ57Kent, England512012unverified
TL29Cambridgeshire, England62012unverified
SH47Isle of Anglesey, Wales52012unverified
TL39Cambridgeshire, England12012unverified
TQ58Havering, England12012unverified

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