ZAPORNIA PUSILLA (BAILLON´S CRAKE) RINGED IN BRAZO DE ESTE, SEVILA, SW SPAIN

On 2nd August I catch and ring this juvenie Bailon´s crake




It had an advanced plumage after postjuvenile mout.In fact, it was still moulting. This is the back pattern















Here you have a Google image of the place

This was the inly crake trapped that day. I´ll be trying in some weeks.

Regards to my colegue Nina Seifert.

Kind Regards.

J. David

Se muestran 2 fotos de a polluela chica que anillé el pasado 2 de agosto en el Brazo del Este, Sevilla (Marismas del Guadalquivir). Tenéis una imagen de Google del lugar. Se trata de un ejemplar juvenil con plumaje avanzado, con muda postjuvenil aún en curso. 

Saudos.

J. David

NEW SCIENTIFIC NAME FOR BAILLON´S CRAKE

 Porzana pusilla is now Zaponia pusilla if we follow the recommendation in

del Hoyo, J.; Collar, N. J.; Christie, D. A.; Elliott, A.; Fishpool, L. D. C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International.

Although you can find Porzana pusilla in many pages in the internet, specially those before 2014, a lot of others have chage to Zapornia. So, I´l use this name from now.

I´m not taxonomist, so I can´t say wich one is more correct. I think the authors above must have good reasons.

Anyway, I´ll keep Porzana in the old articles in order to help anyone searching for crakes in the internet.

Regards

J. David