 | | | | | |
 |
| | |
| | Scientific name: Accipiter novaehollandiae
Size: 30-36cm
Status: Common
Diet: Aquatic vegetation.
Habitat: Deep lagoons, dams particularly with waterlilies and other floating vegetation.
Breeding: Nests on the ground in swamp vegetation or in a hollow of a tree standing in water.
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
 |
| | Green Pygmy-goose
/Green+Pygmy-goose/$File/Green+Pygmy-goose.jpg) The Pygmy-goose is actually a perching duck and is called a goose because of the short strong bill. |
