Rare visitor gets birders flocking to the Highveld

A little bird lost is causing a huge flutter. More than 600 people, some from as far as Cape Town, have come to Johannesburg to get a glimpse of a bird that is not quite the size of a chicken.The bird is a spotted crake and it has pitched up at a pond at Waterfall Estate, Midrand.Spotted crakes, said Trevor Hardaker, chairman of Bird Life SA's rarities committee, usually migrate only as far south as Zambia or Zimbabwe.