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Australian native Laughing Kookaburra close up

the yellow spoonbill is perched on a tree branch

Old damaged Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, missing feathers, worn and tired, close up detail

New Zealand Cape Pigeon flock flying fast over the sea.

A Gannet in flight at Bempton Cliffs on the Yorkshire coast.

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

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

$Taxon name: Eastern Cape Barren Goose\nTaxon scientific name: Cereopsis novaehollandiae novaehollandiae\nLocation: Tasmania, Australia$

A cockatoo looking over the shoulder of another eating a small green plant

Sulphur Crested Cockatoo covered in mud and dirt on an old tree stump

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.

$Great egret (Ardea alba) captured in mid-air flying over natural ocean slough, spring nesting area.\n\nTaken in Northern California$

The Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator) Australian Gannet, Tkapu) is a large seabird of the gannet family Sulidae. At the colony on Cape Kidnapper on the North Island of New Zealand.

Seagulls on the boat ramp. Takapuna skyline in the distance. Takapuna Beach. Auckland.

$Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) adult sitting on nest\n\nLady Elliot Island, Queensland, Australia$

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

Pelican and a seagull together at treelined rivers edge

Laughing Kookaburra's perched on tree branch

White bellied Sea Eagle (Platycercus elegans) perched high in the trees above Lake King in the Gippsland Lakes

Bay Harbour in the heart of Sydney, Australia

Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator) at Cape Kidnappers, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

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Seagulls are standing on over by the sea.

Guillemots on the clifftop of Inner Farne, Northumberland.

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