lewin’s rail on sunshine coast

I have only ever seen one Lewin’s Rail. Many other Canberra observers also saw it (probably just about all the local interested people). It for a few weeks, several years ago, inhabited a soak in a garden bed at Commonwealth park, an inner city park (where Floriade is). It fed right out in the open on the mown lawns but would run back into cover if people came too close. If this had been when Floriade is on (it wasn’t) that place has a human traffic of hundreds of people walking by within about 5 metres per hour (at that time probably tens of people per hour). Philip —–Original Message—–From: birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au [mailto:birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au] On Behalf Of Peter Shute Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2013 12:33 PM To: Greg Roberts Cc: birding-aus Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] lewin’s rail on sunshine coast Greg, your blog says “The rails are seen easily because they are inside lantana thickets”. I’m not familiar with lantana, how does it make them easy to see? Is it sparse enough too see them but dense enough for them to feel safe? Peter Shute Sent from my iPad > On 3 Oct 2013, at 12:22 pm, “Greg Roberts” <ninderry@westnet.com.au> > wrote: > > I have found Lewin’s Rail at two new sites on the Sunshine Coast over > the past couple of days, with one pair showing very nicely. > > Black-necked Stork and Latham’s Snipe are among other birds showing > well in the area lately. > > More here: > > http://sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/lewins-rail-out-and- > about. > html > > Greg Roberts =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================