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Dusky Moorhen and chick

Gallinula tenebrosa

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lori.tas
I love the shot of the chick with the HUGE feet. We don't get the duskys down here but we do have our own endemic species, the Tasmanian native hen. And of course we get the Purple moorhen. Pretty much everybody gets some version of that one.

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