Crakes and Rails

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Subject:	Crakes and Rails
From:	(John Leonard)
Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:49:15 +1100 (EST)

Drought years undoubtedly bring out the crakes and rails, but also I think
that this factor is superimposed on a combination of absolute abundance, and
innate shyness or lack of. My thoughts on a ranking of shyness/sparseness are:

easy to see/abundant/not-shy:
the gallinules, 
Buff-banded Rail,
Baillon's Crake

medium difficulty/less abundant/more shy:
Australian Crake,
White-browed Crake,
Bush-hen

difficult/sparse/shy:
Lewin's Rail,
Spotless Crake,
Red-necked Crake
Chestnut Rail



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Dr John Leonard
PO Box 243, Woden,
ACT 2606, AUSTRALIA

'The pavement-coloured dog
Sniffs the pavement-kerb.'
                    Robert Graves


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