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bush stone-curlew

  1. Bush stone-curlew

    Bush stone-curlew

    Having a doze on Cairns Esplanade. We were greeted by his cousin running around the airport taxi rank at 2.00am!
    • Wiganlad
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    • burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew queensland
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  2. Thick or Stone?

    Thick or Stone?

    We then wandered around one of the paths in this reserve, but Hans was a little disappointed, he didn't tell me what he was actually looking for though. Back in the car park area was was concentrating on an unidentified call when Hans suddenly called me over and there in the shrubbery was Bush...
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 australia burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew bush thick-knee gold coast nikon coolpix p900 october queensland
    • Comments: 14
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  3. Knee high to a grasshopper (or to a thick-knee)

    Knee high to a grasshopper (or to a thick-knee)

    Here's a New Year family portrait, showing just how tiny this chick was. Happy New Year everyone.
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 australia burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew bush thick-knee fuji finepix hs50 north stradbroke island october queensland
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  4. I can't help it....

    I can't help it....

    ..... I keep calling these stone-curlews, when they're properly called thick-knees. This is one of the pair of adults who had an adorable wee chick, which I've shown you before. I may give you a treat and show you another some time.
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 australia burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew bush thick-knee fuji finepix hs50 north stradbroke island october queensland
    • Comments: 11
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  5. Sheltering in the bushes...

    Sheltering in the bushes...

    ..... and then an urgent summons from Hans who had been wandering around the car park. He found what we'd gone to see ... a Bush Stone-Curlew. OK not a Lifer, as I'd first seen them with Ken a couple of weeks before on Stradbroke Island, but it was lovely to be re-acquainted with them. They...
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 australia burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew calf gold coast nikon coolpix p900 october queensland
    • Comments: 17
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  6. And baby makes three .

    And baby makes three .

    • Ken Doy
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    • burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew juvenile/immature
    • Comments: 16
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  7. Bush Stone-Curlew

    Bush Stone-Curlew

    • peterday
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    • burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 19
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  8. Bush Stone-Curlew

    Bush Stone-Curlew

    These birds are supposed to be elusive and shy, and nocturnal, but there were three sitting at the edge of a caravan site beside the road in the middle of the day!
    • peterday
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    • burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 15
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  9. Bush Stone-curlew

    Bush Stone-curlew

    • Ken Doy
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    • burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  10. A Bush Stoney

    A Bush Stoney

    A pair of Bush Stone-Curlew greeted us this morning when we awoke in the Boyd's Bay Holiday Park, Tweed Heads. Although throughout Australia and we have previously listened to their overnight 'singing', this paid do rate as lifers as they are the first actually seen & photographed.
    • The Bosun
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    • burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  11. If I don't move he won't see me.

    If I don't move he won't see me.

    • Ken Doy
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    • burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 16
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  12. Bush stone-curlew

    Bush stone-curlew

    • woom
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    • burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  13. Bush stone-curlew

    Bush stone-curlew

    • woom
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    • burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  14. A first at last!

    A first at last!

    I've made a couple of trips to a local place called "The Spit", or Federation Walk Coastal Reserve, looking for the Bush Stone-curlew which is a known resident, with no luck. Many thanks to Hans & Judy Beste this morning, who escorted me to 'up my chances' of finding one... Hans...
    • kerriebr
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    • burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 10
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  15. Contemplating those that came before

    Contemplating those that came before

    In an old cemetery at Dunwich on Stradbroke Island where many convicts and pioneers came to rest after dying from Yellow Fever and many other deceases in the early days of the colony. Lepers where also isolated on this Island and later Peel Island in the bay.
    • Ken Doy
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    • burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  16. Bush Stone-curlew

    Bush Stone-curlew

    Formerly known as the Bush Thick-knee
    • Ken Doy
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    • burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  17. Bush Stone-curlew

    Bush Stone-curlew

    • Rookery
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    • burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew bush thick-knee southern stone-curlew weeloo willaroo.
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  18. Bush Stone-curlew in resting position

    Bush Stone-curlew in resting position

    • Ken Doy
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    • bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 11
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  19. Bush Stone-curlew

    Bush Stone-curlew

    This one is trying to hide in the leaves, but was spotted!
    • Rookery
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    • burhinus grallarius bush stone-curlew bush thick-knee southernstone-curlew weeloo willaroo
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  20. Bush Stone-curlew Cryptic Plumage AUSLA SER

    Bush Stone-curlew Cryptic Plumage AUSLA SER

    This photo illustrates the cryptic plumage of this species. The bird was alternately walking and sitting (as illustrated) in a patch of forest in a city park in Cairns.
    • rdavis
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    • australia bush stone-curlew cairns queensland
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  21. Protective Parent

    Protective Parent

    This is the more usual posture for a Bush Stone-curlew. These are mostly nocturnal birds and cry a soulful 'weerloooo' during the night, one starting and others joining in, building up to a crescendo, then stopping abruptly. In the folklore of the Australian Aborigine, a bunyip is a roaring...
    • Mike Jarvis
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    • bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  22. Protective Parent

    Protective Parent

    Still threatening me, but his tail has gone down.
    • Mike Jarvis
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    • bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  23. Protective Parent

    Protective Parent

    Driving along a dirt track near a lagoon where I had been birding, I noticed a pair of Bush Stone-curlews (or Thick-knee). As I got close I stopped the car and got out to take photos. Typically these guys freeze when they feel threatened, but one of them came right up to me, spread his wings...
    • Mike Jarvis
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    • bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  24. Bush Stone-curlew

    Bush Stone-curlew

    • stoop
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    • bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  25. Heres looking at you

    Heres looking at you

    This fellow and its parents are the master of disguise. they have been living in the staff carpark of a large secondary college 1250 students and 100 + staff, for months while he has grown from an egg. I shot this bird staring at me from an open bush. He didn't appear to be too pleased with the...
    • tcollins
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    • bush stone-curlew
    • Comments: 11
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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