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Flying wotsits answer (1)

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Subject: Flying wotsits answer (1)
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:38:51 +1000

Small version of graphic below.  This answer is in 2 parts.

 

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For the lower bird, most thought some kind of woodswallow, or perhaps butcherbird.  It is a Black-faced Woodswallow, one of our most widespread birds, replacing the Dusky beyond the SE corner.  This one was snapped recently north of Balranald.    I came across a half-dozen hunting over low herbland, hovering in stationary fashion at heights up to about 30m, looking for all the world like skylarks in song-flight.

 

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