Painted on a small rectangular piece of stringybark by a now unknown artist, the white ibis was depicted in the X-ray style expressed in rock art for thousands of years.
John Thwaites in Sydney Morning Herald For sustenance, this striking bird relies on good seed crops in brown stringybark, desert stringybark and the buloke trees that are now few and far between in southern parts of Victoria and South Australia,Mr Thwaites said. "The recovery...