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Buff-banded Rail on Fairlight Rd

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Subject: Buff-banded Rail on Fairlight Rd
From: Nick Payne via Canberrabirds <>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 07:06:09 +0000
Came across another Buff-banded Rail today, this one unfortunately lying
dead on Tidbinbilla Rd a couple of kilometres north of Tharwa. It must
have been hit by a car only shortly before I came along.

Nick Payne

On 13/01/2022 1:38 pm, Nick Payne via Canberrabirds wrote:
> While cycling up Fairlight Rd yesterday morning, a few hundred metres
> past the ACT/NSW border, a Rail burst out of the long grass at the side
> of the road only a few metres in front of me. It got about a metre into
> the road, then noticed me and did a quick 180 and disappeared into the
> vegetation again. First time I've seen one at a location not a wetlands.
> There is a farm dam and small creek on the other side of the road from
> where the Rail came from and disappeared to.

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