Saturday, February 7, 2015

SPOTLESS CRAKE

Photographed at Dandenong Valley Wetlands, February 2015, taken at a distance, but best I have until I replace.
491          SPOTLESS CRAKE              Porzana tabuensis

Australia        (332)

17-21 cm. Found in well vegetated freshwater wetlands with rushes, reeds, combing; salt-swamps, salt marshes, mangroves; on islands, drier, scrubs, beaches. Ranges along eastern third of mainland; western with mainland; Tasmania.
















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