* Crex crex Corn Crake

The Corn Crake, Corncrake or Landrail ( Crex crex ) is a bird in the rail family.

The Corn Crake is larger than its closest relative, the African Crake, which shares its wintering range ; that species is also darker-plumaged, and has a plainer face.

The Corn Crake is omnivorous, but mainly feeds on invertebrates, the occasional small frog or mammal, and plant material including grass seed and cereal grain.

Despite its elusive nature, the loud call has ensured that the Corn Crake has been noted in literature, and garnered a range of local and dialect names.

The taxonomy of the small crakes is complicated, but the closest relative of the Corn Crake is the African Crake, C. egregia, which has sometimes been given its own genus, Crecopsis, but is now more usually placed in Crex.

The common name was formerly spelt as a single word, " Corncrake ", but the official version is now " Corn Crake ".

The Corn Crake is a medium-sized rail, 27 – 30 cm ( 10. 6 – 11. 8 in ) long with a wingspan of 42 – 53 cm ( 16. 5 – 20. 9 in ).

The Corn Crake is sympatric with the African Crake on the wintering grounds, but can be distinguished by its larger size, paler upperparts, tawny upperwing and different underparts pattern.

A flying Corn Crake can resemble a gamebird, but its chestnut wing pattern and dangling legs are diagnostic.

The female Corn Crake may give a call similar to that of the male, but additionally has a distinctive barking sound, with a similar rhythm to the main call, but lacking the grating quality.

The Corn Crake is silent in Africa.

The Corn Crake breeds from Britain and Ireland east through Europe to central Siberia.

The Corn Crake winters mainly in Africa, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and central Tanzania south to eastern South Africa.

The Corn Crake is mainly a lowland species, but breeds up to 1, 400 m ( 4, 600 ft ) altitude in the Alps, 2, 700 m ( 8, 600 ft ) in China and 3, 000 m ( 9, 800 ft ) in Russia.

When wintering in Africa, the Corn Crake occupies dry grassland and savanna habitats, occurring in vegetation 30 – 200 cm ( 1 – 6 ft ) tall, including seasonally burnt areas and occasionally sedges or reed beds.

Although it sometimes occurs with the African Crake, that species normally prefers moister and shorter grassland habitats than does the Corn Crake.

On migration, the Corn Crake may also occur in wheatfields and around golf courses.

The Corn Crake is a difficult bird to see in its breeding sites, usually being hidden by vegetation, but will sometimes emerge into the open.

The Corn Crake is most active early and late in the day, after heavy rain and during light rain.

In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservative Party under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites ( but not Peel himself, who died soon after ), defected to the Liberal side.

Robert Peel was able to reconcile the new industrial class to the Tory landed class by persuading the latter to accept the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846.

However, repeal of the Corn Laws came too late to stop Irish famine, partly because it was done in stages over three years.

" Corn " was originally the dominant type of grain in a region ( indeed " corn " and " grain " are themselves cognates from the same Indo-European root ).

This was exacerbated after the repeal of the Corn Laws in mid-century, when Britain adopted a free trade policy, and grain imports from America undermined the profitability of crop production.

Corn was used to make all kinds of dishes, from the familiar cornbread and grits, to liquors such as whiskey and moonshine ( which were important trade items ).

During the Middle Ages, export was administered mostly by German merchants living by the squares Kornhamnstorg (" Corn Harbour Square ") and Järntorget (" Iron Square ") on the southern corner of the city.

In Britain in the nineteenth century the inflated price of bread due to the Corn Laws caused major political and social divisions, and was central to debates over free trade and protectionism.

The historian Boyd Hilton argues Peel knew from 1844 he was going to be deposed as Conservative leader — many of his MPs had taken to voting against him and the rupture within the party between liberals and paternalist which had been so damaging in the 1820s, but masked by the issue of reform in the 1830s was brought to the surface over the Corn Laws.

As an aside in reference to the Repeal of the Corn Laws, Peel did make some moves to subsidise the purchase of food for the Irish, but this attempt was small and had little tangible effect.

The repeal of the Corn Laws was more political than humanitarian.

Speaking to the cabinet in 1844, Peel argued that the choice was maintenance of the 1842 Corn Law or total repeal.

Corn soup is a soup traditionally made of corn ( typically sweetcorn ) It was normally made in corn-producing areas of the world, but is now widespread because of greater corn distribution.

* Podlaskie Zakłady Zbożowe S. A. was established on 1 July 2000 as a result of privatizing The Regional Establishment of Corn and Milling Industry ' PZZ ' in Białystok.

Corn was a staple food for the Pueblo people.

She appeared in the stage production, Miss Moffat, a musical adaptation of her film The Corn is Green, but after the show was panned by the Philadelphia critics during its pre-Broadway run, she cited a back injury and abandoned the show, which closed immediately.

Exacerbating matters were the Corn Laws, the first of which was passed in 1815, imposing a tariff on foreign grain in an effort to protect English grain producers.

There was an adaptation story to the cartoon called " Mrs. Cackles's Corn " from Walt Disney's Story Land: 55 Favorite Stories.

In 1966, the interchange at SH 358 was complete, as were the mainlanes to Corn Products Road, west of the SH 358 interchange.

Corn was rather essential to Aztec life and thus the importance of Centeotl cannot be overlooked.

The Corn Laws enhanced the profits and political power associated with land ownership ; their abolition was a significant increase of free trade.

During 1827 the landlords rejected Huskisson's proposals for a sliding scale and during the next year Huskisson and the new Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, devised a new sliding scale for the Importation of Corn Act 1828 whereby when domestic corn was 52 shillings per quarter or less, the duty would be 34 shillings, 8 pence and when the price increased to 73 shillings the duty decreased to 1 shilling.

Peel's acolyte Monckton Milne MP said of Villiers at the time of this concession during 1842 that he was " the solitary Robinson Crusoe sitting on the rock of Corn Law repeal ".

Karl Marx said: " The campaign for the abolition of the Corn Laws had begun and the workers ' help was needed.