This Australian coot is holding aquatic plant material in its bill, to feed its chick. Many coots arrived in New Zealand in 1957, coinciding with the start of a major drought in Australia. They are now well established, their numbers increasing as they colonise new wetlands.
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Photograph by Peter E. Smith
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