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Rare view of endangered White-winged Wood Duck Cairina scutulata, in the wild in lowland tropical swamp forest, Way Kambas National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia, one of only a few sites with relict populations, restricted by lowland clearing. I12.3s

Pair of rare and endangered White-winged Wood Duck Cairina scutulata, in lowland tropical swamp forest, Way Kambas National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia, one of only a few sites with relict populations, restricted by lowland clearing. I64.2s

Pale-headed subspecies of the Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio, and example of an almost cosmopolitan bird with geographic variants across its wide range from Europe, Africa to Asia and Australasia. This one from Singapore. I33.14s

Magpie Geese Anseranas semipalmata congregate in sugar cane fields in North Queensland, Australia. Wildlife sometimes become "wildlife pests", eg. geese grazing on cane shoots, but management techniques are available to alter wildlife's behaviour. Q1.13s

Sexual dimorphism of plumage, displayed clearly in Manderin Duck Aix galericulata, an ornamental duck of East Asian marshes, lakes, wooded streams. I65.3s	Plumed Egret Egretta intermedia displays near its nest in an egret rookery, Australia, showing off the breeding plumes on its breast which were once gathered commercially for millinery adornments. S67.8s	Roosting transequatorial migrant shorebirds or waders of East Asian Flyway, mainly Knot Calidris tenuirostris and Bar-tailed Godwits Limosa lapponica, huddle together in strong winds waiting for feeding areas to be exposed with the ebb tide. W16.13s	Roosting and loafing Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica, a migrant shorebird or wader, on estuary sandflat, Old Bar, Australia, near southern end of East Asia Flyway. Australia & Japan shares these shorebirds. W18.5s	Concentration of Magpie Geese Anseranas semipalmata on remnant water of the South Alligator River floodplain, Kakadu National Park, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia in the late dry season, a feature of the seasonally pulsating Wet/Dry tropics where wildlife population dynamics is dependant on the monsoons. N90-9s
Rufous Night Herons Nycticorax caledonicus gather near a breeding colony in flooded Lake Cowal, an intermittantly flooded inland lake. They are nomads related to the night herons of more mesic northern wetlands. S40.15s	Reef Egret Egretta sacra has dark phase and white phase, sometimes called "Reef Heron", feeds by sneaking over coastal rocks and coral to catch fish, mainly on tropical, subtropical reefs from Japan, SE Asia, New Guinea, northen Australia. Q29.10s	Pied Heron Ardea picata nesting in tropical tree near freshwater lagoon, Top End, Northern Territory, Australia A common heron across coastal northern Australia, New Guinea and eastern Indonesia. N90.24s	Pied Oystercatchers Haematopus longirostris, resident shorebirds or waders, and Australasian representative of worldwide and quite homogeneous pied oystercatcher group, feeding at waters edge in an Australian estuary (Moreton Bay Marine Park). W16.19s	Javan Pond Heron Ardeola speciosa, common resident of lowland ponds, marshes, paddyfields, mangroves, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, Lesser Sundas, often caught by villagers but left as pets rather than eaten. I67.16s
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata, a transequatorial "palaearctic" migrant shorebird which breeds in Siberia and "winters", via Japan & Asia, in Australia, searches for invertebrates in the rich substrates of a coastal lagoon (Lake Cathie, Australia. W18-6s	Little Grebe Tachybaptus novaehollandiae floats high on its nest in a freshwater lake in the Dawson River valley, Queensland, Australia. CQ65.9s	Yellow Spoonbill Platalea flavipes scratches itself after spooning the shallow water and soft mud of an inland wetland with its spatulate bill, Murrumbidgee River, Australia. S33.6s	Musk Duck Biziura lobata, a stiff-tailed, diving duck like a cormorant, is endemic to deep lakes, swamps and estuaries of southern Australia. Though entirely aquatic, it may fly far to ephemeral lakes of the inland when flooded. S27.20s	Pair of Black Swans Cygnus atratus feeding in a wetland in Australia. The endemic Australian black swans are in contrast to most swans, in which white predominates, adding to the list of unusual animals in the Australian fauna. S34.11s
Grey-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes, transequatorial migrant shorebirds or waders which migrate over 9 000km from Siberia to Japan to Australia, feeds at the water's edge in an Australian estuary in the austral summer. W2-13s	Crested Tern Sterna bergii roosting on a beach to preen and loaf between fishing sortes, defend their personal space. Crested terns hunt small surface fish etc over sheltered water. Resident or nomadic in Australia, migratory South East Asia, western Pacific north to Taiwan. W18.12s	Downey chick of the Maned or Wood Duck Chenonetta jubata has cryptic facial colouration reminiscent of the adult female, which helps it lie unnoticed in rank grass beside its parent when predators are about. S66.5s	Grass Whistle Ducks or Plumed Tree Ducks Dendrocygna eytoni on a tropical floodplain wetland, Nth Qld, Australia, incessantly whistle. The species has benefitted from agriculture in parts of Australia. Other Dendrocygna spp. are found worldwide in tropical & sub-tropical areas. Q29.1s	Young White or Sacred Ibis Threskionis aethiopica nearly ready to leave the nest at a nesting colony in Wilbriggie Swamp, Murrumbidgee River,New South Wales, Australia. S64-6s
Lesser Tree Duck Dendrocygna javanica, a common resident of SE Asian swamps, lakes, mangroves, paddyfields, ranging India-Taiwan-Sunda Islands. A 'whistling duck', uttering shrill constant whistle in flight. I39.5s	Sarus Crane Grus antigoni showing distinctive red skin wattles on head and upper neck. Ranges India, SW China, Indochina, Philipines, Australia (similar to endemic Brolga) but curiously not Indonesia, New Guinea. I39.1s

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