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Bush Stone-Curlew

Burhinus grallarius

Photo by GlennK
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Field Notes

Description:

Mainly nocturnal and specialises in hunting small grassland animals: frogs, spiders, insects, molluscs, crustaceans, snakes, lizards and small mammals. Its call sounds like a wail or a scream in the night. When threatened they may raise their wings wide in an impressive threat posture and emit a loud, hoarse hissing noise.

Habitat:

Open wooded rangelands, edges of forest and watercourses.

Notes:

This little guy has been living for the the last five years in the gardens outside my work which happens to be an industrial area. It disappears for about four months each year around January – May time. He also has a mate that lives in a garden about 50 meters up the road.

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Comments (4)
AntónioGinjaGinja
Welcome to Project Noah, gkaehne I hope you like the site as much we do; there are many features you can explore: I invite you to go to http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you will find the purpose and “rules” of Project Noah. There is a blog http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we post articles from spotters with special insight into different organisms. There are also the chats for help with identification, and to comment on your own and others’ spottings. Look at the global and local missions to put your spottings into: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions Enjoy yourself here, see you around!
Gary Leong
nice; it must be very comfortable with you to walk in to your place :)

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