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dhogaza



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(Permalink) Posted: July 26 2010,17:10   

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Around here there are always mass aggregations of egrets (snowy and cattle for the most part), black crowned night herons, and Swainson hawks that collect in the alfalfa fields.


The reference to egrets congregating in fields reminds me of a most enjoyable experience near Cairns, Australia.  About a half mile distant from a road we were driving on there was a field, full of white birds which I assumed were probably egrets.

But, no.  Thousands of sulfur-crested cockatoos.  It was great ...

  
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