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.

BAILLON'S CRAKE

Photographed at Fiveborough Swamp, Leeton, November 2014

412           BAILLON'S CRAKE              Porzana pusilla

Australia           (286)

Range: all of tasmania and mainland Australia except driest se and e WA, w half of SA and bottom 2/3 NT. Found in vegetated freshwater wetlands, waterside trees and shrubs. 15-16 cm.