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A sunrise crowd gathers at Bondi Beach in solace and defiance after a massacre In the first full day of opening since a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Australia’s famed Bondi Beach on Sunday, thousands of people returned to the waterfront Friday to comm...

A sunrise crowd gathers at Bondi Beach in solace and defiance after a massacre #Australa

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Credit to Australian Museum - The Royal Spoonbill is a large white waterbird with black, spatulate (spoon-shaped) bill, facial skin, legs and feet. During the breeding season, it has a distinctive nuchal (back of head or nape of neck) crest, which can be up to 20 cm long in male birds (usually shorter in females). The crest can be erected during mating displays to reveal bright pink skin underneath. Breeding adults also have a creamy-yellow wash across the lower neck and upper breast and a strip of bright pink skin along the edge of the underwings which is obvious when the bird opens its wings. The facial skin is black with a yellow patch above the eye and a red patch in the middle of the forehead, in front of the crest feathers. Females are slightly smaller with shorter legs and bill.

Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia) are large wetland #birds, sweeping their spatulate bill from side to side to feed on crustaceans, fish, frogs and small insects. This bird at Western Treatment Plant, Melbourne #Australa is wearing breeding plumage off back of its head.
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