As a newbie to Australia (at least in birding terms) I don't know the
prevalence of Rails and Crakes around Adelaide, but can report that a
1.5 hour walk around Laratinga Wetlands yesterday evening produced three
Baillon's Crake and numerous (10+) Australian Spotted Crake as well as 3
Black-tailed Native Hens (and still at least three Freckled Ducks). I
looked hard for Spotless but without luck, and an information board had
a picture of a Bittern. I'd be interested to know if these are known to
breed there.
Cheers, Ian
On 7/01/2013 9:52 AM, David Adams wrote:
I'm located on the far south coast of NSW near Bermagui where I've been
seeing Spotless Crake (1) and Spotted Crake (up to 3 at a time) in a
location where I've not seen them before. There's also Buff-banded Rail
there, which is not a surprise Further south in the shire, the crakes are
showing up as well. The Canberra bird list has been alive with crake and
rail sightings (Spotted, Spotless, Baillon's, Buff-banded and Lewin's.)
There have also been a few reports of crakes from various places along the
east coast from people on this list.
Is this just an excellent year for crakes and rails generally? I've been
figuring that after so many years of drought followed by a few good, wet
seasons that there's been a lot of breeding inland. Does anyone know about
the breeding activity of these groups of birds? Are we seeing dispersals
from breeding events inland or locally?
Any thoughts or information welcome.
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