Friday, June 17, 2022

My bush stone-curlew encounter

 

Maybe everyone has encounters with bush stone-curlews, but it was my first one, as far as I'm aware. It was in the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, and I nearly missed them, so good is their camouflage. 

They're also known as the Bush Thick-knee (Burhinus grallarius), and apparently relatively little is known about their habits, except that they're mostly nocturnal. These ones weren't.

More here: Qld-Lands-for-Wildlife article

No comments:

Post a Comment

Palmwoods Park: turtles & ducks of distinction

  Old Orchard Neighbourhood Park the other day.