Cool looking birds we get them in FNQ especially up on the Tablelands.
Very similar looking in flight to the hornbills I used to see in the Solomon’s.
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BH’s been a bit crook this week and hasn’t been up to walking about in pursuit of birds…but she let me know she wouldn’t mind me chauffeuring her around the soggy trails at Western Treatment Plant. Got a bit hairy for our Kia Rio around the slippery muddy sidetrail at T Section, fortunately we didn’t end up in the parallel sewerage ditch, touch and go for a few fraught moments.
#Glossy Ibis - WTP
#Black-tailed Native Hen (AKA Turbo Chook) WTP
#Great Knot - WTP. This pair of lifers in the foreground is a bit special, being rare and endangered. BH’s pic is the first on her site this year. Bigger than most waders, the diagnostic feature is the extended beak, otherwise it closely resembles the far more common but slightly smaller Red Knot. Bit blurry because they were on a distant sandbar and right at the edge of her zoom range. The bird hide was empty yesterday when we were there, guarantee it was chockers today after BH’s post.
#Pipit-WTP Striking shot , I reckon.
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