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A Radjah Shelduck family

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Last week during a camping trip to Kununurra we encountered a Radjah Shelduck family in one of the irrigation channels around town. The Radjah Shelduck family last week were swimming in the irrigation channel right against the road and so we could pull over and admire them. Radjah Shelduck family.

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Tawny Frogmouth family at Cygnet Park-Broome

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There has been a family of Tawny Frogmouths at our local supermarket car-park in other years. The Tawny Frogmouth on the right became aware of me and one eye was on me followed by two eyes! I left the family of Tawny Frogmouths to sleep during the day and they will be out after dark feeding. Tawny Frogmouths. Tawny Frogmouths.

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Sooty Oystercatcher family at Kalbarri

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We rarely encounter family groups of Sooty Oystercatchers Haemotopus fulginosus ophthalmicus at home in Broome, but more commonly we encounter a flock of approximately thirty non-breeding Sooty Oystercatchers at the northern end of Cable Beach. Family of Sooty Oystercatchers. Sooty Oystercatcher juvenile on the right with parents.

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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

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That fallacious family name seems to have encouraged all manner of knaves, dunderheads, and miscreants when time came to label species. Appropriate appellations should respect the birds, not 19th century naturalists and their friends and family. … The post Wood Warbler Names Done Right appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Sand Point Family Vineyards: Cabernet Sauvignon (2015 Lodi Appellation)

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I saw my first in Utah back in 2010 right around the time I first started birding but didn’t see one in California proper until a visit to Point Reyes National Seashore in October of last year. Sand Point Family Vineyards: Cabernet Sauvignon 2015 (Lodi Appellation). One wonders how they ever find the time to make wine!

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Tawny Frogmouth family

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Tawny Frogmouth family-5th February. Tawny Frogmouth family. You will be restricted to the bitumen and you may get delayed by flooded creeks closing the highway, but the birds are often right beside the highway anyway! It is lovely to see such beautiful birds in such a lush green environment at this time of year.

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Royal lineage: Kinglets and crests in the bird family tree

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So naturally, I got to thinking about kinglets, and their Palearctic kin, the “crests,” and where they belong in the avian family tree. The family Regulidae comprises six small, hyperactive species that range through the great boreal and temperate forests North and Middle America, North Africa, and Eurasia.

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