Category: Features

Our photographer, Julie Higgs, has a wicked sense of humour capturing this Australian white Ibis in a compromising position. The Ibis itself is doing little to rid itself and its fellows of its common Australian moniker. The Australian White Ibis is one of the country's most adaptable native birds. Long before it became a familiar sight in city parks and rubbish bins, it played an important role in Australia's wetlands, where it feeds on insects, crustaceans, frogs and carrion, helping to keep ecosystems healthy. As wetlands have been drained and...