Corn creak only locally
Photo: Arne Ader
Nature sound: Veljo Runnel
Translation: Liis
Corn creak
Nature sound:
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Corn creak
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Rukkirääk
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Very few have seen the corn creak since it is a bird with a very concealed way of life but many have heard the ”creaking”. The ”creaking” of the male bird is not often heard in daytime, its main calling time is late in the evenings and in the summer nights.
The corn creak has a reddish-brown plumage and is a little bit larger than a thrush. Rounded wings and a short tail add up to an impression of a stocky bird. It isn’t seen in flight in the summer; when threatened it runs into grass for protection. Habitats are wet areas with high grass, for instance floodplains, low marshes or fallow hayfields, field verges at river banks.
In areas with intense farming it is a vanishing species.
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