We have just returned from 12 days in the centre of Australia. Not many opportunities for bird photographs but I was delighted to get a few nice shots of this species (a new one for me).
I had walked along the bottom of Kings Canyon with our group of friends when I noticed these birds. Unfortunately I only had the "tourist lens" on the camera so I ran back to the 4WD, over a kilometre away, changed lenses and ran back to where I had last seen the bird. It must have benn an unusual sight to other tourists as my wife was running behind me carrying my tripod, struggling to keep up!
I thought it was a good effort for a bloke who turned 60 on that day!
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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)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)