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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

TIL that southern lapwings have these cool boney spurs poking out of their wings. Vicious.

As far as I can tell, the photo was taken by Shanthanu Bhardwaj and is CC BY-SA 2.0.

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• Photo of a southern lapwing in flight moving from left to right. The wings are held high, and you can clearly make out the boney spurs. It looks a little bit like it could mess you up. As far as I can tell, the photo was taken by Shanthanu Bhardwaj and is CC BY-SA 2.0. (remote)