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Australian Spotted Crake

(Porzana fluminea)
Alternative names: "Water-crake", "Australian Crake", "Spotted Crake"
Size: 19-22 cm

Taxonomy, classification

See Australian Spotted Crake at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat

 (for details refer to a field guide)

Australian Spotted Crakes are endemic to Australia. They can be found along the east and south coast of Australia, including eastern Tasmania, and along the rivers of the semi-arid interior, including parts of the Murray-Darling Basin. They also occur along the south and west coast of WA, from where they can disperse further inland and northward up to the Kimberleys. In the south-east they can disperse northwards up to about central QLD. They are not found in northern QLD, including Cape York, the NT northward of the tropic of Capricorn, the western half of SA and the eastern half of WA.

Australian Spotted Crakes live in dense vegetation around both fresh and brackish/saline swamps, along lakes, rivers and in estuaries.

Sightings

An Australian Spotted Crake was first seen by us at Macquarie Marshes, western NSW, in April 2011.

Photos

Partly obscured lateral view of an Australian Spotted Crake

Here an unobscured view from behind, unfortunately unsharp

These pages are largely based on our own observations. For more salient facts on any bird species please refer to a field guide.