Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest.
en.wikipedia.org In past there were many marshes making the countryside even less hospitable.
en.wikipedia.org The main dockland areas were originally low-lying marshes, mostly unsuitable for agriculture and lightly populated.
en.wikipedia.org The region is characterized by numerous marshes, brakes, sloughs, bayous, lakes, creeks, and rivers that in the geologic past were parts of the river bed.
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