TASMANIAN NATIVE-HEN

Photographed at Deloraine, Tasmania, January 2015

473           TASMANIAN NATIVE-HEN             Gallinula mortierii            

Australia            (314)

Also known as Narkie. 43-50 cm. Endemic to Tasmania, absent from the w. and sw. Found in farmlands with short grass, tussocks; edges of wetlands, streams, lakes; margins of woodlands; roadsides.

BLACK-TAILED NATIVE HEN

Photographed at Fiveborough Swamp, Leeton, November 2014

411          BLACK-TAILED NATIVE-HEN            Gallinula ventralis

Australia              (285)

Also known as Barcoo Bantam. 30-36 cm. habitat includes open margins of wetland, lakes, rivers, wet claypans, especially in lignum; open woodland; pastures, oops and gardens. Range is most of Australian mainland except across the north, down the east coast of NSW and Victoria, and the dry se of WA,w of SA, sw of NT.