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magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata), Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)
| Subject: | magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata), Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)
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English: A pair of plates
1. Anseranas semipalmata
2. Pelecanus conspicillatus
Date before Cayley's death in 1950
Source What Bird Is That? by Neville W. Cayley (1984), page 5. First published 1931.
Author Neville William Cayley (scanned by Toby Hudson)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cayley_p5_Magpie_Goose_and_Australian_Pelican.jpg
The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative waterbird species of the Anseranatidae family. It is a resident breeder in northern Australia and a vagrant to southern New Guinea. Magpie geese are unmistakable birds with their black and white plumage and yellowish legs. The feet are only partially webbed, and the magpie goose feeds on vegetable matter in the water, as well as on land.
The Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus) is a large waterbird of the family Pelecanidae, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagrant in New Zealand. It is a predominantly white bird with black wings and a pink bill. It has been recorded as having the longest bill of any living bird. It mainly eats fish, but will also consume birds and scavenges for scraps. |
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