David Berry
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Strutting my stuff …
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Australian Ibis : Threskiornis molucca
Sandgate, Queensland
Sandgate, Queensland
Australian Ibis
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Mark Hauser
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Beautiful capture
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Very nice!!
David Berry
🇦🇺 Australia 🦘
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Beautiful capture
Thank you!
Our white ibis has a reputation as a 'garbage tip turkey' or a 'bin chicken' – blame the humans – so it was a joy to see this specimen on the tidal flats of Moreton Bay behaving like a proper wild animal rather than a suburban scrounger.
I was actually trying, I must admit not too successfully, to photograph one of the smallest shorebirds frequenting the bay. The Red-necked Stint (below, right) was dwarfed by a group of Pacific Golden Plovers (actually quite small birds) who, in turn had Bar-tailed Godwits (only just qualifying as 'medium') towering over them! Beyond all of these, were a few Far Eastern Curlews (seriously endangered)… and then in strode Mr Handsome, the ibis.
If only I had the talent to capture something akin to those wonderful African waterhole scenes with the full range of wildlife from sandgrouse to elephants gathered in harmony. (It would probably be a bobbejaan or two who'd disrupt that party.)
… David
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Pacific Golden Plover (left) : Pluvialis fulva
Red-necked Stint (right) : Calidris ruficollis
Moreton Bay, Queensland
Red-necked Stint (right) : Calidris ruficollis
Moreton Bay, Queensland
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