Although I had often heard of the "corncrake" or landrail of the British.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call Of The South 1908] Reference

I thought I heard a corncrake calling in the garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Month in the Country] Reference

Out in the fields, a corncrake raised its rasping vesper and a shepherd whistled on his dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference

These include: wattled crane (Grus carunculatus, VU), slaty egret (Egretta vinaceigula, VU), corncrake (Crex crex, VU).    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands] Reference

These include wattled crane (Grus carunculatus, VU), corncrake (Crex crex, VU), and lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni, VU).    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Miombo woodlands] Reference

Her little voice was like a corncrake when she got going and the words became a hoarse shout I made them both laugh out loud.    From Wordnik.com.  [two women]

The globally threatened wattled crane Grus carunculatus (VU), corncrake Crex crex (VU), and lesser kestrel Falco naumanni (VU) occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania] Reference

Other threatened birds include lesser kestral (Falco naumanni), corncrake (Crex crex), and aquatic warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola).    From Wordnik.com.  [Central European mixed forests] Reference

Heaped over thick with buttercups, I saw the corncrake pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The verse-book of a homely woman] Reference

Many sedges described in the book had wings of corncrake feathers.    From Wordnik.com.  [WalesOnline - Home] Reference

Somewhere in the distance beyond the line a corncrake was calling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love] Reference

I heard a corncrake, saying its Latin name, 'crex crex' in a hedge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Only the sharp cry of the corncrake broke the solemnity of the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Northern Iron] Reference

The sharp rattle of the mowing-machine disturbs the corncrake in the meadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

I returned to the settlement with nothing but one corncrake and the new axle.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I] Reference

The corncrake (Crex crex), whose numbers have fallen sharply in recent years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Yet by great patience and watchful skilfulness the corncrake is sometimes caught by hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

A corncrake jarred in a hay-field near by, and the small trouts of the brook began to jump.    From Wordnik.com.  [Puck of Pook’s Hill] Reference

An island's population of wild cats has been culled in a bid to save the endangered corncrake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference

Our corncrake -- I don't know what the usual standard may be -- does ninety-eight to the minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914] Reference

"Come here, Watch," the shepherd called, and when Watch came he bent down and took a corncrake from his mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs] Reference

Presently a hand-bellows foghorn jarred like a corncrake, and there rattled out of the mist a big ship literally above us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traffics and Discoveries] Reference

In the narrowest part of the wood between the hedge and the river a corncrake called his loudest "crake, crake," incessantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

By this time the whole glade would be awake, expressing views concerning that corncrake that would have wounded a less callous nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Novel Notes] Reference

An old corncrake lived near to us, and the way he used to disturb all the other birds, and keep them from going to sleep, was shameful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Novel Notes] Reference

A corncrake is caught in the same way by hand while sitting on her nest on the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

The corncrake is noo awa '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Echo Mocks the Corncrake] Reference

We'll welcome back the corncrake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Echo Mocks the Corncrake] Reference

Whaur the echo mocks the corncrake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Echo Mocks the Corncrake] Reference

He heard a corncrake in the garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Month in the Country] Reference

The corncrake has arrived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914] Reference

The corncrake called still.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sons and Lovers] Reference

But it had no effect on the corncrake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914] Reference

The corncrake nested in the unmown field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballad of Reading Gaol] Reference

Without, a corncrake ground monotonously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference

"Gor on," the corncrake would answer surlily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Novel Notes] Reference

A corncrake in the hay-close called insistently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sons and Lovers] Reference