We soon had the main object for that trip under our belts, although we'd seen them before, they're such wonderful birds. They've a couple of names, "Thick-knee" and "Stone-Curlew", everyone agrees that they're prefixed with Beach though.
They've also been placed in two different genuses... [I]Burhinus[/I] and now [I]Esacus[/I]! They must be getting quite confused LOL
They were on a protected area of the beach at Kakadu (but not the famous one LOL).
Wonderful looking birds, aren't they. Last time I was there, about 3 weeks before, there were two of them - I wonder if she was now sitting on eggs?
