A leaking
tank at a wayside stop between Mataranka and Roper Bar provided a drink for
some local seed eating birds.
Some Masked
Finches were the smallest species in for a drink.
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Masked Finch – it had to share the site and bow out
when larger and more numerous birds pushed in. |
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A quick drink before others barged in. |
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Peaceful Doves were in large numbers everywhere we went
in the Top End. Here they push in for a drink and the Masked Finch had to wait. |
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There was only room for two birds to drink at a time. |
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Size matters – a larger Crested Pigeon displaced the
Peaceful Doves. |
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If it were possible to know the number of Peaceful
Doves in Australia it would be a very large number! |
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The subject leaking tank – not pretty, but the water
was very precious in this hot dry area in the Dry Season. Boothy and Irwin have
found another use for the tank! |
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