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Long, prominent tail feathers are a key feature of Anas acuta, the northern pintail.
This handsome, migratory, large dabbling duck really gets around.
The pictured individuals were wintering in Rajasthan, before heading north to their breeding grounds in central or northern Asia, or Europe.
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For many birds, standing on one leg is entirely comfortable, even for extended periods.
When did you ever see any such bird lose its balance?
For Homo sapiens, it is another matter entirely.
However, our ability to stand on just one of our own two feet is very much more telling/predictive than most of us realise.
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…in this instance, over an urban wetland in Gujarat, western India, a few minutes after sunrise on 16 February this year.
Comments closedNow happening in southern Australia…and some us do not have to leave town in order to enjoy surprisingly close views.
On at least one inner-metropolitan lake, Podiceps cristatus has recently become surprisingly much less wary of Homo sapiens.
One CommentThis post is not a 2018 Melbourne Cup field update!
However, it will answer a question that you probably have never asked:
How does an echidna scratch itself?
Comments closedAt high tide the waters of Perth’s Swan-Canning Estuary can cover 55 square kilometres – a surface area just a whisker larger than Sydney Harbour. Point Walter is where the Swan “turns the corner”, then suddenly gets much narrower and deeper.
One CommentThis stilt (a banded stilt, I think) is one of many now active at Lake Claremont.
Many of Perth’s “natural” places are in a sad state, degrading.
Lake Claremont is a happy exception.
Comments closedAll but one of the photos in this post were taken yesterday on a brief, late afternoon walk around our local lake. It is just a few minutes’ drive – or less than an hour’s walk – from the heart of Perth’s CBD.
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