Monday, January 11, 2010

Brolgas enliven stretch of road


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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4 comments:

  1. SnailJanuary 11, 2010 at 9:17 PM

    I love those birds. We should adopt their colour scheme as a back up for the green and gold.

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  2. Martin CJanuary 11, 2010 at 9:53 PM

    Great pictures Tony.

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  3. mickJanuary 12, 2010 at 4:29 AM

    Beautiful birds and you have caught the wing stretching perfectly.

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  4. Tyto TonyJanuary 12, 2010 at 1:50 PM

    But could we use their trumpeting calls to replace Advance A Fair?

    Thanks a lot, Martin and Mick.

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