Australian Crake
Porzana fluminea ‡
Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_4381 20240106 - CLICK for another pic.
Notes: Male: sooty face, red eye and base of yellow bill.
Streaked black flecked and edged white
brown upperparts. White
undertail-coverts forming inverted V when viewed from rear (cf
Baillon's
Crake). Female: grey face.
Very fast moving, constantly flicks tail. On marshy edges of well-
vegetated
fresh & saline wetlands.
Range from Morcombe© (modified)
Pt Cook, Port Phillip Bay, S Vic IMG_0989 20180429 - male. Note white inverted "V"
Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_2803 20171127 - male
Aldinga Washpool, SE SA IMG_2300 20241025 - male
Boort, N Vic IMG_4187 20240106 - female
Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_4112 20240106 - male, flying. CLICK for another pic.
Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_7696 20241201 - female. CLICK for male.
Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_8188 20190924 - male
Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_4219 20240106 - female
Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_4206 20240106
Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_4222 20240106
Aldinga Washpool, SE SA IMG_2309 20241025