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Gallinula tenebrosa
Dusky Moorhen

DESCRIPTION: The Dusky Moorhen is small and black, with two yellow tufts and a red and yellow beak, that comes up all the way to his head. It has faily small webbed feet. CALL: The Dusky Moorhen's call is pretty squeaky! It's a bit like erk, erk, ork, ork, erk, erk!!

Dusky Moorhen By Sean October 1998

HABITAT:

The Dusky Moorhen lives near swamps, where it's wet, and also in calm places.

DISTRIBUTION:

The Dusky Moorhen is wide spread around Australia in: N.S.W, Q.L.D., Victoria, a bit of W.A. and S.A.

INTERESTING FACTS: 

This animal has two yellow tufts under it's wings. It dives a lot under the water to get its food (like most water birds).

The Dusky Moorhen cannot fly, it's feet are just a little webbed so it can't swim too fast. It likes to be in calm places because it's a pretty shy bird. It doesn't usually attack but when trespassers come, it defends its nest.

It likes the swamps because there are a lot of aquatic plants. It's food is aquatic plants (food that grows under water.)

Bibliography :

Birds of Australia
Multimedia CD published by Websters

Research by Sean and Julien 4/5S

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