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Many great knots winter in Australia, along with smaller numbers of their close relative the red knot. These winter-plumage birds were photographed on a tidal mudflat off Buffalo Creek, near Darwin in the Northern Territory, where they were flocking with black-tailed godwits. They were very shy and difficult to photograph; a long lens helped but these images are strongly cropped. During processing I noticed that several were color-banded; it turns out they were captured in the area a few weeks earlier. |
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