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Yellow-billed Spoonbills breeding

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Not only is it a bird species we rarely encounter, but we had never found a breeding colony before. The Yellow-billed Spoonbills had found the perfect environment to breed and we were lucky enough to come across it. Adult breeding plumage in Yellow-billed Spoonbills. Not all of the nests had been vacated yet either.

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Definitively the Egyptians!

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In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. In the 1970s we had two to four breeding pairs, in the 1980s one to two, in the 1990s it was zero to two (irregular breeding).

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Breeding Plumaged Dunlin

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Don’t get me wrong, they are nice to see, mostly because in winter we have so few shorebirds around in New York, but they are definitely not going to be the red-letter bird of an outing. But when spring comes and they get into high breeding plumage, wow! Birds never cease to amaze me. How do they do it?

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The return of the Old Man

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Sadly, they no longer breed in Algeria, while in Turkey no free-flying birds remain. (In Intriguingly, there are far more Bald Ibises in captivity than there are in the wild, for this is a bird that breeds readily in confinement. Bald Ibises are curious birds, for they are happy breeding in close proximity to man.

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Magpie-lark breeding near Broome

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Whilst enjoying the Magpie Geese breeding around Broome recently we also noticed a Magpie-lark nest close to the highway in one of the very few trees beside the road. The female Magpie-lark gave each of the young some food, but one particular bird was definitely keen to take the most food that it could. Feeding the young Magpie-larks.

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Young Thrushes

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Admittedly this has never crossed my mind as being remotely interesting, young birds are generally awkward things, not yet fitting into the sleek and streamlined expectation of the dictionary definition of “bird” Furthermore, thrushes are often underappreciated creatures on their own. Wise creatures.

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A flock of Spoonbills

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We know that Yellow-billed Spoonbills breed further south and no doubt start to roam around once they leave the breeding colony. The stand-out bird species for the day was definitely the large flock of Royal Spoonbills , though.

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