Pukeko

A pukeko is a bird. They are also vegetarians. They are mammals.

Pukekos colours are black, blue, red, and a little bit of white on their tails. Pukekos have long legs and long toes. They also have small eyes and a pointed red beak.T, snow white undertail and heaps of feathers.hey have a scarlet bill and a frontal plate.

Pukeko often live in swamps, farmlands, wetlands, creeks, lakes, fields, paddock and damp grasslands. Lots of pukeko live in the Carmichael Reserve in Bethlehem.

Pukeko often stay on land, but they can fly, (they don’t fly often), run, swim, and climb. When they are alarmed they flick their tail. When they walk their head moves forwards and backwards. Pukeko eat insects, frogs, small birds and egg,in June and July they are very fat.