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 Red-necked Avocet Recurvirostra novaehollandiae, a wader or shorebird, feeds in flood-waters of Narran Lake Nature Reserve, Australia. Its strange bill shape is adapted to a swinging, sything motion in shallow water and soft mud. S13.8s |
 Banded Lapwing Vanellus tricolor performing a decoy display near its nest - a behavioural adaptation to distract predators and lead them away from the vulnerable nest, on the ground in chenopod herbfield, shore of Lake Galilee, Central Queensland, Australia.CQ6e |
 Female Mountain Duck or Australian Shelduck Tadorna tadornoides, a large southern duck related to the shelducks of Eurasia. Males have all-dark heads and a white neck ring. S18.16s |
 Fledgeling Gannet Sula bassana grows larger than its parent as it stores fat for development of feathers which will replace the down and allow it to fly from The Bass Rock, Scotland, U.K. E57.3s |
 Migrant shorebirds or waders Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica, roost on a pebble bank, a high tide roosting site in Moreton Bay Marine Park, SE Qld., Australia. Come April or May they will undertake their 12 000km migration flight to high-latitude tundra approaching the North Pole. W17.2s |
 Great Egret Egretta alba wades through flooded samphire on the shallow edge of inland wetland, Lake Bindagolly, outback southwestern Queensland, Australia, amid vast arid plains and stoney hills. Lake Bindagolly National Park is home or migration stopover for 59 spp of waterbirds, & important inland breeding site.SW124.2s |
 Male Hardhead or White-eyed Duck Aythya australis, only Australian member of the worldwide pochard or diving duck family. Only the male has the white iris, typical of the Aythyinae. S20.8s |
 Australian Little Grebes Tachybaptus novaehollandiae mating on the nest in a seasonal floodplain wetland, Dawson River, Queensland.Like most wetland wildlife, Little Grebes have behavioural adaptations which hasten breeding response after wetland flooding. CQ33.13s |
 Misty winter dawn silhouettes a pair of Black Swan Cygnus atratus and other waterfowl on Lake Broadwater, a large semi-permanent natural lake on the Condamine River floodplain, Queensland. Wetland are important centres of biodiversity in many landscapes.6x6cm SW19.3e |
 Magpie Geese Anseranas semipalmata, an aberrant goose with no close relatives, roosting in trees in tropical floodplain wetland, north Australia (also New Guinea). Commonly in 3's: "breeding trio" of one male, 2 females (male with larger head hump). Q2.9s |
 Great Egrets Egretta alba wade through flooded samphire on the shallow edge of inland wetland, Lake Bindagolly, outback southwestern Queensland, Australia, amid vast arid plains and stoney hills. Lake Bindagolly National Park is home or migration stopover for 59 spp of waterbirds, & important inland breeding site. SW97-6s |
 Great Egret Egretta alba uses its wings to lift off against the sun in an Australian wetland. The feathers form an aerofoil which creates pressure under the wing feathers and produces lift and a creature of grace and beauty in the air. S105.14s |
 Grey Teal, Freckled Duck and other waterfowl rise from the shallow edge of inland wetland, Lake Bindagolly, outback southwestern Queensland, Australia. Lake Bindagolly NP is home or migration stopover for 59 spp of waterbirds, & important inland breeding site. SW97.12s |
 Freckled Duck Strictonetta naevosa, or "Monkey Duck", rare endemic duck with unique anatomical features characteristic of both ducks and swans, inhabits the unreliable habitat of southern inland Australia's ephemeral wetlands, using a nomadic lifestyle.Though protected, numbers are shot in error during the open season on game ducks. S105-12s |
 Young Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus probes for benthic invertebrates in inland Narran Lake, Australia. Glossy Ibis range from Europe to Australia, where their nomadism has adapted them to the temporary nature of the wetlands. S29-24s |
 Pacific or White-necked Heron Ardea pacifica hunts fish, frogs, tadpoles and crustaceans which have bred after flood in a Darling River floodplain wetland, inland Australia, on its nomadic wanderings. S58.12s |
 Yellow Spoonbill Platalea flavipes swallows an invertebrate morsel after spooning the shallow water and soft mud of an inland wetland with its spatulate bill, Narran Lake Nature Reserve, outback New South Wales, Australia. Narran Lake is an important inland waterbird breeding site threatened by upstream water extraction. S20-17s |
 Hoary-headed Grebe Poliocephalus poliocephalus on its floating nest of aquatic plants, anchored to a tussock of canegrass Eragrostis australasica in an ephemeral claypan flooded after heavy rain in semi-arid Nocoleche Nature Reserve, Australia. S35-14s |
 Banded Stilt Cladorhynchus leucocephalus, an endemic wader which lives nomadically and breeds on remote ephemeral salt lakes, where breeding is timed for the abundance of brine shrimps, and completed before drying. S28.6s |
 Red-necked Avocets Recurvirostra novaehollandiae, an endemic Australian wader or shorebird, fight for space in floodwaters of an arid inland lake (Narran Nature Reserve), after flooding from local rain. The flood cycle of the wetland will produce abundant insect and crustacean food for avocets and other waterbirds to breed, before drying up in the summer heat. S83-4s |
 Cape Barren Geese Cereopsis novaehollandiae, unrelated to other geese, breed on remote Furneaux Islands in Bass Strait, Australia, grazing on short mainland pasture in summer. Almost hunted to extinction in 19th century. SW97.5s |
 Spectacled Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus in an estuary (Australia), where pelicans are familiar sights despite these nomads flying hundreds of kilometres inland to remote ephemeral lakes to breed. Also in Indonesia, New Guinea, Pacific. Q1.1s |
 Black-winged (White-headed or Pied) Stilt Himantopus himantopus, a 'wader' adapted to wading in shallow water, strides across soft mud of drying Narran Lake, an ephemeral inland wetland in Australia. S20.14s |
 Little Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucos flies past a Darter or Snakebird Anhinga melanogaster drying off after some underwater fishing at Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in New South Wales which often has water and supports a rich fauna of fish and nesting waterbirds. S28.18s |
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