White-breasted Waterhen
A common bird in kampung and village setting as well as fringes of woodland with waterways and drains all over Malaysia. The kampung folks do hunt them for food..... by playing their call which somewhat hypnotised them to come out and with a lasso contraption catches their legs and that is it to the curry pot.............
This beautiful bird are hunted by the rural forks in padi fields and marshland all over Malaysia. Very sad but life is like that. Its population is still manageable and they breed very fast as many as 2-3 seasons a year. I have seen people using mist net laid across a section of the field and then for the other side they start banging tin can and throwing stones to skittled the birds into the net. The other way is they use a recorder to lure the bird into wired leg lasso trap .
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