Editing Corn crake (section)

==Taxonomy==
The [[Rallidae|rails]] are a bird [[family (biology)|family]] comprising nearly 150 species. Although the origins of the group are lost in antiquity, the largest number of species and least specialised forms are found in the [[Old World]], suggesting this family originated there. The [[Taxonomy (biology)|taxonomy]] of the small crakes is complicated, but the closest relative of the corn crake is the African crake, which has been given its own genus, ''Crecopsis''.<ref name="taylor29" /><ref name="Livezey1" />

Corn crakes were first described by [[Carl Linnaeus]] in his 1758 [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'']] as ''Rallus crex'',<ref name="Linnaeus1758" /> but was subsequently moved to the genus ''[[Crex]]'', created by German naturalist and ornithologist [[Johann Matthäus Bechstein]] in 1803, and named ''Crex pratensis''.<ref name="bechstein" /> The earlier use of ''crex'' gives it [[Principle of Priority|priority]] over Bechstein's [[specific name (zoology)|specific name]] ''pratensis'', and leads to the current name of ''Crex crex''.<ref name="Sclater1896" /> The binomial name, ''Crex crex'', from the [[ancient Greek]] "κρεξ", is [[onomatopoeia|onomatopoeic]], referring to the crake's repetitive grating call.<ref name="wood" /><ref name="Smith" /> The common name was formerly spelt as a single word, "corncrake", but the official version is now "corn crake". The English names refer to the species' habit of nesting in dry hay or cereal fields, rather than marshes used by most members of this family.<ref name="ioc" />