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Little Crake (Zapornia parva)Where and when to see it in the UK

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

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

Little Crake (Zapornia parva)
Ivan Medenica, 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.

Little 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.

Little Crake has been recorded in 14 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in June.

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

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
SR99Pembrokeshire, Wales102024unverified
SU09Wiltshire, England22024unverified
TL37Cambridgeshire, England682018 to 2023unverified
SP84Milton Keynes, England362023unverified
TF30Cambridgeshire, England22020unverified
SE82East Riding of Yorkshire, England102019unverified
SO70Gloucestershire, England362005 to 2015unverified
TM46Suffolk, England292014unverified
TQ00West Sussex, England112011unverified
SX98Devon, England112008unverified
HP61Shetland Islands, Scotland42007unverified
SW53Cornwall, England122004unverified
SV91Isles of Scilly, England42003unverified
TR01Kent, England32000unverified

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