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Royal spoonbills are a regular feature in the Manawatu estuary, and some of them are becoming acclimatized to human presence, sweeping for food despite pedestrians on the walkway 20m away.
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Royal spoonbills are a regular feature in the Manawatu estuary, and some of them are becoming acclimatized to human presence, sweeping for food despite pedestrians on the walkway 20m away.
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3 dabbling with black swan and possibly shovellers
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Not uncommonly seen in the Manawatu estuary, this one was uncharacteristically not feeding, but just posing, it seems.
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Not uncommonly seen in the Manawatu estuary, this one was uncharacteristically not feeding, but just posing, it seems.
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Not uncommonly seen in the Manawatu estuary, this one was uncharacteristically not feeding, but just posing, it seems.
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A normal viewing of royal spoonbills in the Manawatu estuary is to see them preoccupied with feeding.
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A normal viewing of royal spoonbills in the Manawatu estuary is to see them preoccupied with feeding.
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A normal viewing of royal spoonbills in the Manawatu estuary is to see them preoccupied with feeding.
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dabbling; photo by Diana Baguhn
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dabbling; photo by Diana Baguhn
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Platalea regia Gould, 1838, Royal Spoonbill, Jerrabomberra Wetlands, Kingston, ACT, 30 December 2013
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Platalea regia Gould, 1838, Royal Spoonbill, Jerrabomberra Wetlands, Kingston, ACT, 30 December 2013
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Platalea regia Gould, 1838, Royal Spoonbill, Jerrabomberra Wetlands, Kingston, ACT, 30 December 2013
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Not usually in numbers this close to the well-travelled walkway along the estuary.
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Not usually in numbers this close to the well-travelled walkway along the estuary.
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Bear with me on the sequence. Reverse chronological order. If you look at them in correct chronological order, one spoonbill goes off to feed, and another follows, to be chased away by the first.
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Bear with me on the sequence. Reverse chronological order. If you look at them in correct chronological order, one spoonbill goes off to feed, and another follows, to be chased away by the first.
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Bear with me on the sequence. Reverse chronological order. If you look at them in correct chronological order, one spoonbill goes off to feed, and another follows, to be chased away by the first.
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Bear with me on the sequence. Reverse chronological order. If you look at them in correct chronological order, one spoonbill goes off to feed, and another follows, to be chased away by the first.
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Bear with me on the sequence. Reverse chronological order. If you look at them in correct chronological order, one spoonbill goes off to feed, and another follows, to be chased away by the first.
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Bear with me on the sequence. Reverse chronological order. If you look at them in correct chronological order, one spoonbill goes off to feed, and another follows, to be chased away by the first.
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Bear with me on the sequence. Reverse chronological order. If you look at them in correct chronological order, one spoonbill goes off to feed, and another follows, to be chased away by the first.