I have seen a Buff Banded Rail a couple of times in the Royal Botanic
Gardens, the south-western edge of which is more-or-less only at the
top of Martin Place anyway. I saw one Rail in the undergrowth on the
south-eastern side of the gardens, technically in the Domain, on the
side of the stairs that lead up from Woolloomooloo to the top of the
land-bridge opposite the Gardens entrance near the art gallery. It was
near the bottom of the stairs, right near the bottom along Cowper
Wharf Rd, in the plantings to the right. The other time (the first) I
saw a Buff Banded Rail there was in the Gardens proper, in the under
growth near the main pond. This was all a couple of years ago (pre
mid-2005), when I still lived in Potts Point and was a frequent
visitor to the gardens (walking through it or the domain was part of
my daily commute for many years).
We once found a Button Quail sheltering in a doorway of an apartment
building on Macleay St Potts Point. For those who don't know where
that is you would probably imagine it as part of Kings Cross Sydney if
you visited it. We captured it and handed it over to WIRES although
there didn't seem to be anything wrong with it, it wasn't going to
last very long in the Cross.
regs
scot
On 02-04-2008, at 9:41 AM, brian fleming wrote:
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?
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