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DSC_3822 jpg Banded Rail ( Rallus phillipensis )
A denizen of wetlands particularly Mangrove ares, sadly becoming scarce through predation and habitat destruction.
Also a short sighted propensity to build walkways through these wetlands as if they are otherwise valueless.
Banded Rail find this difficult to accept.
Also their larger cousins the Weka are proliferating in much of the Rail habitat and hugely predate young and eggs of Banded Rail.
Authorities dont readily accept this but I spend hundreds of hours in close proximity so see the things they never see and never will sitting within a heated office with an occasional trip to a wetland perhaps on a sunny day after 10AM..
DSC_3822 jpg Banded Rail ( Rallus phillipensis )
A denizen of wetlands particularly Mangrove ares, sadly becoming scarce through predation and habitat destruction.
Also a short sighted propensity to build walkways through these wetlands as if they are otherwise valueless.
Banded Rail find this difficult to accept.
Also their larger cousins the Weka are proliferating in much of the Rail habitat and hugely predate young and eggs of Banded Rail.
Authorities dont readily accept this but I spend hundreds of hours in close proximity so see the things they never see and never will sitting within a heated office with an occasional trip to a wetland perhaps on a sunny day after 10AM..