Tasmanian Native Hens are good swimmers and fast runners with strong legs therefore some people call them 'turbo chooks'. The chooks can run up to 50km hour are plentiful near marshes, rivers and so on. The Native Hen is protected. Link to better photos I took last year is [here ]
In the current photos the Chook was some distance away. Then photos of some ducks down Huonville, Tasmania.
Plovers you can read about them [ here ]
