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The wotsit

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Subject: The wotsit
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 10:45:50 +1100

A Satin Bowerbird, as Barbara Jones and Denis Wilson identified it.  This is the quick wing-flash in display, and a closer look shows the bird is replacing its underwing coverts, the emerging feathers, some still with their sheaths, lined up like a row of artist’s paintbrushes ready for use

 

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