A baby bush stone-curlew lays perfectly still in foreground leaf litter with out of focus mother on guard in the background in Cairns, Australia.
The bush stone-curlew or bush thick-knee is a large ground-dwelling bird endemic to Australia. The favoured habitat is open plains and woodlands, where they stalk slowly at night in search of invertebrates such as insects.
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Location: Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia
Photo credit: © Photography By Marco / Alamy / Afripics
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