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"Recent wet weather in the arid plains of central Australia prompted the
wildlife ecologist and bird enthusiast Dr Tim Henderson to stop last week at a
small lake to see if any waterbirds had shown up.
While there, above his head came a sight many birdwatchers wait a lifetime for:
the red goshawk, Australia’s rarest bird of prey. It had a throat full of food,
and was in a location it had never been photographed and had not been recorded
at for about 30 years.
Henderson had to pinch himself.
“It looked like something I didn’t recognise,” said Henderson, who leads a team
of ecologists at the Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s Newhaven wildlife
sanctuary, a vast reserve about 300km west of Alice Springs.
“I thought, ‘surely it’s not a red goshawk’.
“I snapped a few photographs, but I didn’t want to get my hopes up.”
Dr Rich Seaton, of BirdLife Australia, reviewed Henderson’s pictures and
confirmed he had indeed snapped a red goshawk.
“It’s a unique-looking bird of prey, but they can be very tricky to identify in
the field,” Seaton said.
“It has beautiful, barred plumage; long, broad wings with finger-like feathers;
and big feet and talons for hunting other birds.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
