Red-necked Crake Rallina tricolor
Red-necked Crake, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, November 2010 - click for larger image Cairns, Queensland, Australia
November 2010

The Red-necked Crake is distributed in Papua New Guinea and surrounding islands and in Queensland, Australia from Cape York south to Paluma. It is found in the dense understorey of rainforest particularly close to rivers and streams.

Red-necked Crake, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, November 2010 - click for larger image It has a yellow-green bill, chestnut head and neck, with remaining upperparts brown. The eye is red and the legs are are olive-green.

They feed mainly on invertebrates which it seeks out in leaf litter and the margins of streams and rivers.

Red-necked Crake, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, November 2010 - click for larger image
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