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| Female, photographed at night near Deniliquin, NSW February 2015 |
Australia (358)
15-19 cm. Plains-wanderers are rare, its stronghold is in s. NSW, it is patchy in NSW/Q; s. NT; n., se. SA, n. Vic. Found in sparse, treeless, lightly grazed native grassland/herbfields with bare ground; old cereal crops; short lucerne; sparse saltbush, low shrubland. An amazing bird and has been placed in a family of its own with no living relatives. The female lays four eggs which are incubated by the male. Endangered.
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| Plainer and smaller male. |
This one's a little cutie.
ReplyDeleteso strange looking - they look or rather don't look like anything else - good on the lads though very evolved looking after the babies
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