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Like their North American relative the long-billed curlew, the eastern curlew has a dramatically large, curved bill for probing deeply into mudflats. One bird in the photos below has captured a small crab and is preparing to eat it (not easy with a bill that big). These were all photographed on the mudflats at the Esplanade in Cairns, north Queensland, Australia.
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