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Book caption: The Lacepede Islands are a low sandy group off the west coast of Dampierland which are a prime breeding ground for seabirds. Here brown boobies are nesting among the thin vegetation of Spinifex longifolius (large clumps) and the trailing vine Ipomoea pes-caprae. Note booby chick centre, whose mother has been disturbed by the photographer. Such unguarded chicks quickly fall prey to gulls. The genus Spinifex which occurs on coastal dunes is not to be confused with the hummock grasses popularly known as spinifex which belong to the genera Triodia and Plectrachne.
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Subjects
- Brown booby -- Western Australia -- Lacepede Islands -- Photographs.
- Spinifex -- Western Australia -- Lacepede Islands -- Photographs.
- Eriospermum -- Western Australia -- Lacepede Islands -- Photographs.
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BA2480/5.8
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