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Australian native Laughing Kookaburra close up

the yellow spoonbill is perched on a tree branch

Juvenile White Ibis resting on a park bench in the morning sun.

An American white ibis (eudocimus albus) captured with a crab in its beak, in the grasses of the wetlands.

Bay of Fires Conservation Area is a popular tourist destination in Tasmania

Australian white ibis. Threskiornis molucca

African jacana in the wetland where it belongs, this one is seen in the Okavango National Park in Botswana

The Eurasian spoonbill or Common spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae.

White Ibis commonly known as a bin chicken in Australia

The laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) is a bird in the kingfisher subfamily Halcyoninae.

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$Western Cattle Egret.\nThe western cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. Most taxonomic authorities lump this species and the eastern cattle egret together (called the cattle egret), but some (including the International Ornithologists' Union) separate them. Despite the similarities in plumage to the egrets of the genus Egretta, it is more closely related to the herons of Ardea. Originally native to parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, it has undergone a rapid expansion in its distribution and successfully colonised much of the rest of the world in the last century.\n\nIt is a white bird adorned with buff plumes in the breeding season. It nests in colonies, usually near bodies of water and often with other wading birds. The nest is a platform of sticks in trees or shrubs. Western cattle egrets exploit drier and open habitats more than other heron species. Their feeding habitats include seasonally inundated grasslands, pastures, farmlands, wetlands and rice paddies. They often accompany cattle or other large mammals, catching insect and small vertebrate prey disturbed by these animals. Some populations of the cattle egret are migratory and others show post-breeding dispersal.\n\nThe adult cattle egret has few predators, but birds or mammals may raid its nests, and chicks may be lost to starvation, calcium deficiency or disturbance from other large birds. This species maintains a special relationship with cattle, which extends to other large grazing mammals; wider human farming is believed to be a major cause of their suddenly expanded range. The cattle egret removes ticks and flies from cattle and consumes them. This benefits both species, but it has been implicated in the spread of tick-borne animal diseases.$

Kookaburras are terrestrial tree kingfishers native to Australia. They grow between 28 and 47 cm in length and weigh around 300g

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The laughing kookaburra is a bird in the kingfisher subfamily. It is a large robust kingfisher with a whitish head and a brown eye-stripe. The upperparts are mostly dark brown but there is a mottled light-blue patch on the wing coverts.

Australian ibis bird in bright sunlight in front of a lake in Adelaide, South Australia

The Jabiru Stork, shown here at the Belize Zoo, is the tallest standing bird in the Americas at 5ft and a wingspan of 8ft. The arrive in Belize from Mexico in November and nest in the tall pines of the savannas and marshes of the Belize lowlands.

Kookaburras are terrestrial tree kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea. They have a loud distinctive call that has become synonomous with Australia.

Juvenile Australian native Laughing Kookaburra

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) with raised crest, perched on a fallen tree branch ready to drink from the lake with beautiful reflection on the still water, at the Duck Pond, Centennial Park, Sydney, Australia.

Jabiru Stork, Jabiru Mycteria, Cuiaba River, Porto Jofre, Pantanal Matogrossense, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, South America

White Ibis resting on a tree in the morning sun.

Royal Spoonbill nesting at the mouth of Waitangiroto River in West Coast New Zealand

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