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Genus:  Esacus

Description:  The Beach Stone-Curlew is a large wading bird.  It has a strong bill with a yellow base.  It has stout legs & thick knees.

Distribution:  The Beach Stone-Curlew or Beach Thick-knee is a shorebird that inhabits mangroves & mudflats, beaches & reefs along the coast in northern Australia.

It lays 1 egg in a nest located on sandbars, among mangroves or on sand sheltered by casuarinas.

Comments:  The Beach Stone-Curlew is considered 'vulnerable to extinction' in Qld.  In NSW it is listed as an endangered species. 

Sightings:         

  • South Stradbroke Island
Currawongs

Currawong feeding on 'stolen' meat on Mt Solitary.

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