Brolga (Grus rubicunda) appears to be showing off wingspan to potential partner, but in fact was merely stretching wings and things by a farm road near Ingham.
The species never drops in at Tyto (the wetlands lacks anything tempting, vegetable or animal). Seeing about 60 of the graceful charmers on flood-prone coastal grazing land not far from Tyto was a happy surprise.
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Monitor with right-of-way not spotted right away
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I love those birds. We should adopt their colour scheme as a back up for the green and gold.
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures Tony.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful birds and you have caught the wing stretching perfectly.
ReplyDeleteBut could we use their trumpeting calls to replace Advance A Fair?
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot, Martin and Mick.