Buff-banded Rail in Flight

[L&L Knight <>]

I've placed a picture of a BB Rail in flight on the Australasian Bird 
Image Database - http://www.aviceda.org/abid/index.php - taken on the 
West Island of Ashmore Reef.
There is a thriving colony of rails there, and they take to the air far 
more readily than the ones I see round SEQ and tend to fly a fair way 
once they get airborne.  The interesting thing with the rail that I 
photographed, is that in contrast to the trailing legs description & 
picture in P&K, the bird's legs were up and marginally projecting 
beyond the tail tip.  The discrepancy is possibly due to the difference 
between short and longer distance flight.
Regards, Laurie.

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