Baillon’s Crake

Order Gruiformes; Family Rallidae (Rails, Coots & allies); Scientific name: Porzana pusilla; Subspecies: pallustris;Common name: Bailon’s Crake; Alternative common name: Tiny Marsh Crake – Distribution in Australia: throughout Tasmania and present in all mainland states from the Top End of the Northern Territory and Kimberley Region in northern Western Australia, through the broader southwest south of Exmouth Peninsula; on the eastern seaboard it ranges from north of the Tropic of Capricorn in eastern Queensland through New South Wales and Victoria, and through south-eastern South Australia west to Adelaide Hills - Distribution outside Australia: Subspecies: pallustris is found in eastern New Guinea; numerous other subspecies occur from Sou-Saharan Africa through Central and South Asia, through Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea to Samoa and New Zealand.