Sunday, February 22, 2015

GLOSSY IBIS


Photographed at Deniliquin, February 2015
511         GLOSSY IBIS         Plegadis falcinellus

Australia           (352)

48-61 cm, wingspan c. 90 cm. Ranges over most of Australia, including Tasmania, except driest e. of SA, se. NT and se. and central e. of WA. Habitat well-vegetated wetlands, wet pastures, rice fields, floodwaters, floodplains, brackish or occasionally saline wetlands, mangroves, mudflats, occasionally dry grasslands.



















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