Purple Swamphen
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 The Purple Swamphen is a very wide-spread bird - it lives from tropical Africa over Asia right down to Tasmania. My field guide says the Swamphen was less common in Northern Australia, but there - an nowhere else - I saw one. Of course and again at Yellow Waters during the dry time, when all animals far around are squeezed together along the few remaining water. |
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