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Coastal marshes.
Shallow lagoon by salt lake
These birds are breeding here.
Coastal marshes.
Coastal marshes.
Coastal marshes.
Coastal marshes.
This Avocet is keeping an eye on its chicks.
This older chick is beginning to show signs of adult plumage.
The nest is just a scrape on the ground!
In the company of Whiskered Terns, Common Terns and Black-headed gulls.
Keeping company with Black-winged Stilts.
A number of these are scattered about the marshes.
Only a few of these seen this end of the marshes.
Photographed with a Black-tailed Godwit. In the third pic, a Black-winged Stilt ...
Pied bird with distinctly up-curved bill at the tip, used for sweeping the ...
First picture taken almost looking into sun, hence odd colours. The other ones ...
The first picture has Black-winged Stilts in the background, subject of a ...
The Dunlin feeding amongst then in pictures 3-6 will have its own separate ...
Small Plover to the right and other possibly calidris waders in front and ...
A small flock resting in a puddle at the edge of a large flock of yellow-headed ...
Almost hidden behind a rock while a Black-headed Gull drifts by in the ...
Black back with white underparts, long bill and orange legs.
This series is posted for the benefit of the chick. Note how it merges into the ...
A young Avocet chick, probably not long out of it's egg, searches along the ...