Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Vagrant to Algeria, Comoros, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Italy, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Rwanda, Seychelles.
Northern Ivory Coast patchily east to Cameroon and south to coastal Congo; more continuously from eastern Zaire to Kenya, southern and west to Zimbabwe and extreme south-eastern Angola; scattered localities in South Africa, where may breed in wet years.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 1,000 - 25,000 (2010).
Status LC
Habitat loss as a result of overgrazing and the damming, draining and cultivation of seasonal and ephemeral wetlands.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Food
Earthworms, small snails, spiders, beetles, grasshoppers, flies, moths, insect larvae, small fish, tadpoles.
Striped Crake (Aenigmatolimnas marginalis) [XC615125]
by Mark Kirk from Livingstone, Livingstone, Southern Province, Zambia (song)
Striped Crake (Aenigmatolimnas marginalis) [XC355772]
by id from Temba, Bojanala, North West, South Africa (call)
Nest
A shallow bowl or platform of vegetation, typically constructed 10 - 25 cm above the water in a tuft of grass, or occasionally floating or positioned above damp ground. Sometimes a false nest is built which is abandoned before completion.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet