Pukeko Mug

The Pukeko (swamp hen) inhabits wetlands, farmland, roadsides and urban parks where they seek out a wide range of foods, including variuos kinds of vegetation, (especially rhizomes, shoots , seeds and leaves) grubs, worms, and small fish. Pukeko are deep blue and black with red legs and bill.

They flick their tail with it's white underneath as an alert of danger. Their calls include a raucous "screech". Breeding is a communal affair, where femails may lay in the same nest, and incubation, feeding and caring for the chicks is shared by all in the group.