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. 

4 comments:

Snail said...

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

Martin C said...

Great pictures Tony.

mick said...

Beautiful birds and you have caught the wing stretching perfectly.

Tyto Tony said...

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

Thanks a lot, Martin and Mick.

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