Hong Kong: A Crake and IKEA
Malcolm Peaker (noreply@blogger.com)
Sometimes birds turn up in unusual places. Birders in Hong Kong were out in force in February--not to some remote parts of the New Territories but to a landscaped building in the heart of Kowloon. There, in the patches of garden around Kowloon Bat Sports Centre, was a crake, a Slaty-legged Crake (Rallina eurizonoides) to be precise, going about the business of searching for food, moving around a bit and having a nap.
In recent years these crakes which are summer visitors to shrubland in the New.