WOOD SANDPIPER

photographed at Dandenong Valley Wetlands, February 2015

492               WOOD SANDPIPER          Tringa glareola

AUSTRALIA          (333)

20-23 cm. Ranges all over mainland Australia, sparse in inland, rarely found in Tasmania; breeds in n. Eurasia to ne. Siberia, migrates to Australia in summer. Found ion muddy margins of wetlands, tidal mangroves; margins of tidal flats; saltmarshes, sewerage ponds.

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.