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More & more Straw-necked Ibis

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Subject: More & more Straw-necked Ibis
From: John Layton <>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 03:21:15 +0000

Overnight showers sprinkled the local oval dissolving desiccated doggie does and bringing larvae and other packages of avian protein towards the surface – maybe there’s a connection. Anyhow, as I was returning to the warmth of the car 38 Straw-necked Ibis landed and patrolled stoically like soldiers carrying out a lackadaisical emu parade. Less than a minute later nine more arrived followed by a further 25, totalling 72. A perusal of my records going back to the mid-1990s shows this to be the largest flock of Straw-necked Ibis I’ve recorded in West Belconnen.

 

John Layton

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