Hmmm, on first sighting maybe but as it seems very happy in its environment it sort of seems like it belongs wherever it turns up. I think it might be a Shuttering Crane or possibly a Pictoral Crane.
Wendy
Mandurah, WA
Peel-Yalgorup System Ramsar Site
Thanks Alan and Wendy, you spot an obvious introduced species and let it slip though your fingers. Now i can give a positive ID on this species in Canberra. This thing is adapting faster than a cane toad Last spotted armed with a Can(n)on.
I just looked up what it says about "Crane(s)":
Cranes are a clade of large, long-legged and long-necked birds in a group . Cranes fly with necks outstretched, not pulled back.
There is no "neck" displayed in the species in your photo.Unless he can stretch it out. Unfortunately I can't see his legs
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M-L
oi, I just saw this thread - what's this about strange?
Peter
I've seen one of those but I couldn't find it in the field guide. I believe it might have been a vagrant, well out of its usual range!
Wendy
Mandurah, WA
Peel-Yalgorup System Ramsar Site
http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlinoz/
Wendy, is strange the correct description?
Hmmm, on first sighting maybe but as it seems very happy in its environment it sort of seems like it belongs wherever it turns up. I think it might be a Shuttering Crane or possibly a Pictoral Crane.
Wendy
Mandurah, WA
Peel-Yalgorup System Ramsar Site
http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlinoz/
Are you 2 having fun?
Well I have found my way now to Canberra for a period of ... told 6 weeks initially but I believe that it will be longer
new lifers so far are - Freckled Duck (Thursday), Pink Robin, female (Saturday) (ID to be confirmed)
Peter
Yep.
(and well done on the new ones for the list!)
Wendy
Mandurah, WA
Peel-Yalgorup System Ramsar Site
http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlinoz/
thanks
I need more time as I haven't finished sorting the WA pics
Peter
Thanks Alan and Wendy, you spot an obvious introduced species and let it slip though your fingers. Now i can give a positive ID on this species in Canberra. This thing is adapting faster than a cane toad Last spotted armed with a Can(n)on.
Shorty......Canon gear
Canberra
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/
My bad! If I'd thought to take a pic, I could have been famous for the first sighting in the West!
Wendy
Mandurah, WA
Peel-Yalgorup System Ramsar Site
http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlinoz/