Buff-banded Rails with chicks at Gorokan, NSW

[Carl Clifford <>]

Hi All,

For the last couple of years along the foreshore of Tuggerah Lake at  
Gorokan, Central Coast, NSW, I have had the pleasure of regularly  
observing a Buff-banded Rail. A moth ago, I noticed it with another  
BBR and 4 chicks. Today I saw the pair, plus the 4 chicks and 2 other  
adults. It looks like my single BBR has expanded to a substantial  
family group.
I had always thought that BBRs were crepuscular and fairly skulking in  
habits. Not these. For the last week I have been seeing them, chicks  
and adults, out and about in the middle of the day foraging, calmly  
wandering around back yards and out on the mud flats, sometimes up to  
100m from shelter.
The lakefront reserve they inhabit is a regular thoroughfare for  
people and their dogs, children and other pets, is a regular hunting  
ground for cats and foxes. That the BBRs have managed to survive, let  
alone breed and apparently thrive in such an urban  environment is, to  
me, testimony to the toughness of this species.
Cheers,

Carl Clifford

Cheers,

Carl Clifford
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