The only Jacana or Lillytrotter in the Australasian region. This attractive species occurs from the Philippines south through Wallacea to north and east Australia.

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Close enough to the edge of Comb Ridge.

Napali coast, Kauai Hawaii

Al I wanted was one comb but these combs came in a package

I had to buy them. for some colorful inspiration :-)

Taken with an I phone, didn't want to miss this comb cloud.

Yellow-crowned Night Heron having a bad hair day.

Great Blue Heron, Shipyard Golf Club, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Taken at Sandy Camp Rd Wetlands Reserve, Lytton, Queensland.

Aka Lotusbird.

With its long legs and oversized feet, at first glance the Comb-crested Jacana appears particularly ungainly. However, anyone who has watched one nimbly picking its way across precarious platforms of floating aquatic vegetation would disagree. Similarly, those strangely elongated appendages would seem to render any attempts at long-distance movements problematical. Again, this is incorrect. They have been occasionally recorded as making very long distance journeys.

Birdlife Australia.

This is from my archives, it was a dull day.

So i decided to experiment & add some frost to it ,

to make it look wintery.

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Late in the day, from a campsite in Comb Wash, the light was leaving the cottonwoods but highlighted Comb Ridge.

Bears Ears National Monument

The shelling was good over the weekend. I came home with a another bagful myself. Have a great 4th everybody.

Macro Mondays- Cosmetics 1 1/2” section of hair comb, with water drop bling.

A breezy day is bad news for the lady cardinal's coiffure

~ David Bowie - Right (never no turnin' back) ~

Cattana wetlands, Qld., Australia

Peiname ...

A small abandoned cabin in the valley below Comb Ridge was surrounded by a fence. Today, the fence acts as a tumbleweed catcher. Wilbur is almost hidden by the pile on the right side of the image.

Happy Fence Friday.

Cold misty conditions over Chinley and Chapel en le Frith with Combs Moss in the background.

Cattana wetlands, Queensland, Australia

Lasts three months and produces a good-sized basket of dog fleece.

One of the models doesn't know I'm taking a picture.

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Gold Coast, Australia-1822

This was one of my target species for eastern Australia. A delightful little wader with enormous long toes and feet to enable it to stand on floating vegetation, hence their nickname, Lily-trotter. Females are the dominant sex in this family and are much larger than the males. The females maintain a territory with 3-4 males and they lay eggs in each male territory for them to bring up. Judging by the size of this bird, it is a male.

Ever since I was small I loved feeling

somebody comb my hair. It made me

go all sleepy and peaceful.

(Sylvia Plath)

Looking close... on Friday! - Things with Teeth

(photo by Freya, edit by me)

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Plastic comb-shaped anti-bird device placed on a height restriction bar to an underground carpark. These soft plastic comb-like spikes are much friendlier than the usual more lethal-looking metal ones that are angled in 2 directions in a V arrangement.

Gold Coast, Australia-1862

Combs Moss, Derbyshire's Mount Roraima... :)

Comb Ridge is a huge monocline that is more than 80 miles (103Km) long made of Navajo Sandstone. At this point it is over 1000 feet (305 m) higher than the wash below it.

Scenes from Combs Lane in black and white

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Nisqually NWR

Val Veny,Italie

London 23/6/2020

Lake Macdonald, Australia-1811

Taken at WWT Slimbridge

Hen Comb is a fell in the west of the English Lake District. One of the Loweswater Fells it lies to the south of Loweswater lake and Loweswater village. Although of only moderate height, its ascent can be difficult as it is largely surrounded by bogs.

Snow on combs Lane...

Taken at Sandy Camp Rd Wetlands Reserve.

Also known as the lotusbird or lilytrotter. Like other jacana species, its enormous feet are adapted to the floating vegetation of tropical freshwater wetlands.