10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2018
On that visit we paddled from Lake Argyle back to Kununurra over three days and that was a magnificent experience. Masked Lapwings , Straw-necked Ibis , Plumed Whistling-Ducks , Magpie-larks , Cattle Egrets and Australian Pratincoles all gather around and in the drainage channel. Cattle Egret. Common Sandpiper.
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2014
As we came through the open fields towards the coast there were numerous Cattle Egrets among the cattle and Straw-necked Ibis. It is the perfect spot to have a picnic and stroll and experience a wide variety of birds. Trips Australia cormorants Fairy Wren heron Magpie oystercatchers Raven'
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10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2013
Thankfully it did not last long and then brought some surprising birding opportunities that we normally only experience in our Wet Season. Grey Teal roosted around a dam alongside Black-fronted Dotterels and Red-kneed Dotterels and Australian Pratincoles were well-camouflaged amongst the cattle. Birding Australia Broome'
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2012
There have been a lot of different birds around this year for various reasons, which mainly involve the climatic changes we experience from year to year. The four Banded Lapwings were in amongst the cattle at the edge of the road and several Australian Pratincole were also present. How wrong we were!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2022
” I have a scientific background myself, and I guess some experiments on animals may sometimes be justifiable, but others just leave me disgusted, such as this one. Somehow I did not think Cattle Egrets would eat dragonflies (shouldn’t they eat beef, at least judging from their name?) but they do.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2022
This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” This Cattle Egret has just read a paper stating that it would be 3.6
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2011
There had been cattle in the area and we kept coming across bizarre butterfly circles. All we can think is that they were attracted to an area where there had been cattle urine and they were getting the natural salts. It seems the most likely answer, but who knows! They removed some hairs from their tail end and the line failed!
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