Saturday, April 20, 2019

MARSH CRAKE

Photographed at Timber Yards Road, Leeston, South Island, New Zealand, April, 2019

(*  412)                   MARSH CRAKE                   Porzana pusilla

NEW ZEALAND                 112

Known also as Baillion's Rail and by the Maori name Koitareke. Uncommon native. Inhabits dense beds of reeds and rushes in freshwater and estuarine wetlands. Found over most of New Zealand.