Buff-banded Rail, MARTIN PLACE, Sydney

[brian fleming <>]

   I wonder if your Buff-banded Rail came to Sydney on the bumper-bar 
of a car?  Quite a few dead birds picked up in city streets have this 
sort of history - I once found a dead male Red-capped Robin in Greville 
Street Prahran (inner-suburb Melbourne) - near Andrew Isles shop 
actually.  It was with a lot of long  grass which had apparently been 
brushed off a car's radiator and bumper.  Unfortunately it was a hot day 
and the bird was quite 'high', so no use for Museum.
   Of course Rails do turn up in odd places,  having apparently got 
tired when flying and just landed where they were - a friend had one for 
two days in a suburban garden in Canterbury. I don't think Martin Place 
was a good landing area - could it have flown into a window?
Anthea Fleming



Alistair McKeough wrote:

> This morning on the way to work I found a deceased Buff-banded Rail in
> Martin Place (between the ANZ Bank and Henry Davis York, for those who know
> the area).
>
> The corpse is in very good condition, has no stiffening and shows no obvious
> signs of disease or injury to my untrained eye.
>
> I will deliver it to the Australian Museum this morning.
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