This is another "re-mix" from 2009.

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This is a "re-mix" from a shot taken in July 2009.

This straw-necked ibis is about to eclipse the moon.

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This is another "re-mix" from a shot taken in December 2009.

These two flocks of birds make a lot of noises in a distance, heading in different directions, obviously with different agendas.

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Spring has been here for 2 months, yet there are quite a few areas of the park with dead trees. Red Wattlebirds like to perch on those dead branches and blend in very well. You don't know they are there unless they call their mates, or decide to go to other places, like this bird here.

This is a "re-mix" from an image taken in 2009, very heavily cropped.

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This image is included in a book "Guide to INTRODUCED PEST ANIMALS of Australia" by Peter West, published by CSIRO, ISBN 978-1-4863-0567-4.

The whole afternoon, he fluffs up himself and flashes his neck colours and makes cuo- roo -cuo - roo - cuo calls, he hasn't had much luck so far. Here he is obviously deflated as he watches another beauty moving further away . . .

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