Pukeko Writing

Pukeko

The habitat of the Pukeko is the damp swamps and any natural grassland. You can also see them occasionally foraging for food on the side of roads. The Pukekos diet consists of aquatic vegetation, grasses, clover, berries, and seeds. It sometimes eats insects, worms, frogs, eels and occasionally small birds and eggs. The Pukekos features have adapted over the years. Its beak is short and shaped like a triangle with a blunt end (structural adaptation) so it can catch eels and other water animals. Its legs are long  and thin (structural adaptation) and it walks slowly and quietly (behavioural adaptation) so it doesn’t scare the prey away.

By Mikayla