“I’m soon busily checking off my list: great-billed herons, comb-crested jacanas, rainbow bee-eaters, blue-winged kookaburras, pied stilts, striated herons, jabirus, brown falcons, little eagles and sea eagles, azure and sacred kingfishers, green pygmy geese (actually ducks), and the hilariously Dr Seussian-­looking Australian bustard, and so many more. About 4000 plumed whistling ducks roost by day on the edge of the floodplain in front of the lodge, sounding like as many boiling kettles as they congregate and like a plane departing when they take flight en masse if a brumby or buffalo wanders through the flock.”

A Wild Bush Luxury adventure at Bamurru Plains in the Top End with The Australian.

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