We were going to stay a third night in Karumba but at the last minute, decided to head back to Normanton and overnight there.
There were many small flocks of Brolgas along the side of the road on the way out of Karumba. The locals said that the Brolgas had come in after some late seasonal rain. For someone who had only ever seen a few of them before, it was brilliant.
(In looking up if there was another name apart from flock for a group of Brolgas (there isn't) I came across the following statement "But the twentieth century was not kind to Brolgas. In the northern part of their range, particularly in Queensland, a single flock of Brolgas can still number 12,000 birds."
Boy I'd like to see that.
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