Nature Diary

By Tanya Loos
October 4 2017 - 2:30pm
STRAW-NECKED IBIS: Gearing up for mating season and feasting in the wet paddocks.
STRAW-NECKED IBIS: Gearing up for mating season and feasting in the wet paddocks.

The paddocks near my place in Porcupine Ridge are busy with visitors. Almost 100 straw-necked ibis can be seen there each day, first on one paddock then in the other; probing the soil with long bills and stalking through the grass tussocks.

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