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Purple Swamphen oil gland

To: 'Con Boekel' <>, 'canberrabirds chatline' <>
Subject: Purple Swamphen oil gland
From: Philip Veerman <>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 04:38:24 +0000
Probably is rare to catch this so clearly on camera but of course most birds do 
this most days.

Philip

-----Original Message-----
From: Con Boekel 
Sent: Tuesday, 1 March 2016 3:27 PM
To: canberrabirds chatline
Subject: Purple Swamphen oil gland

I present here what I believe may be a pictorial rarity... a bird squeezing its 
oil gland during preening.

Purple Swamphen
JWNR
9 February 2016
Con Boekel


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