Tuesday, January 10, 2023

WATERCOCK

 

Photographed on Cocos Island, January 2023



1316                   WATERCOCK                   Gallicrex cinerea

AUSTRALIA.                      802


Lives in wetlands, flooded crops, rivers, ponds; sometimes brackish water. Ranges across S and SE Asia with movement to the Philippines, Borneo and Indonesia in northern winter.Rare vagrant to Christmas and Cocos Islands, most records in December to March.





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