Spotless comes out

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Subject:	Spotless comes out
From:	"Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date:	Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:04:17 +1100

Steve’s comment on the elusive Spotless prompted me to dig out some old video footage (from December 2006) and post it on the IBC site. At that time all 3 small crakes could be seen together out in the open over the drying mud. If you can bring up the below video, its main interest (to me) is that the recently hatched flightless young – about the size of a snooker ball – is able to forage busily and effectively over the soft mud. Its tiny prey might include mosquito larvae and pupae - or something of about that size. If those chicks survived they might be the adults you can see at the same site today. (I suppose they can live for 6 years.)

http://ibc.lynxeds.com/video/spotless-crake-porzana-tabuensis/downy-young-feeding-help-adult

http://ibc.lynxeds.com/video/spotless-crake-porzana-tabuensis/downy-young-forages-itself

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