The Mythical Bird Does Exist! ... We're just back from a round trip that took in Mutawintji National Park, Sturt National Park, Cameron Corner, Innamincka, Lyndhurst and Gluepot Reserve. Our primary target was this bird, the Grey Falcon, having looked for it for years all over northern and central Australia. On a particularly hot and windy day we were lucky enough to find a pair of GFs on the shore of Lake Pinaroo. Having seen something that looked interesting from about 500m away through my binoculars, we snuck up quietly and were rewarded with two Grey Falcons, which were in the process of dismembering a Whiskered Tern on the ground - they were down behind a log so we could get reasonably close to them without being detected. They then flew up into a tree, allowing good views (and photos), but eventually flew away across the lake when we tried to get a bit closer. A magic experience, one we'll never forget!
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Lake Pinaroo, Sturt National Park, NSW, Australia.
We're just back from a round trip that took in Mutawintji National Park, Sturt National Park, Cameron Corner, Innamincka, Lyndhurst and Gluepot Reserve. Our primary target was this bird, the Grey Falcon, having looked for it for years all over northern and central Australia. On a particularly hot and windy day we were lucky enough to find a pair of GFs on the shore of Lake Pinaroo. Having seen something that looked interesting from about 500m away through my binoculars, we snuck up quietly and were rewarded with two Grey Falcons, which were in the process of dismembering a Whiskered Tern on the ground - they were down behind a log so we could get reasonably close to them without being detected. They then flew up into a tree, allowing good views (and photos), but eventually flew away across the lake when we tried to get a bit closer. A magic experience, one we'll never forget!
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
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North America (includes the Caribbean)
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Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
