There's a swag of other great websites you can visit to swot up on the swamp mafia...

Click onto the NZ Birds website pūkeko page

Click onto the Biotechnology Learning Hub story about the DNA of the pūkeko and its overseas relatives.

Click onto this cute pukeko family video clip from Natural History NZ.

Click onto the Webstitch domain for a whole ‘room' full of cute cloth pookies you can make yourself.

Click onto the Te Ara (New Zealand's Online Encyclopedia) wetland birds pages

Click onto this American site that showcases the pūkeko's flashy cousin - the Purple Gallinule