Hi all this morning on my way into work, I saw a Noisy Miner chasing a small bird (a pardalote?) across the open space above the road junction of Pacific Highway and Mona Vale Road in northern Sydney. It looked like they came out of the trees by the rail bridge and headed off towards … Read more
Barry I saw this behaviour in a TV documentary several years ago. It is David Parer’s “Platypus – World’s Strangest Animal”. In this case, the cormorant’s (I think it was a Little Pied but it could have been a Little Black) encouragement was quite vigorous. The foraging by the Platypus disturbed prey species that the … Read more
Whilst guiding at Mt. Lewis last Saturday 23/04/11 our group watched a pair of Atherton Scrubwrens gathering skeletal leaves as lining for their nest which they had almost completed. Their normal breeding season is from October until December. Their nests are generally well hidden usually in grass or ferns on the ground. Last November I … Read more
Such a bird may be seen at Batman Station. It appeared there as a chick in November last year. =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Recently, at Sharp Park near Canungra in SEQ, Perth birder Mark Newman I saw a Platypus and a Little-black Cormorant feeding together in what appeared to be a cooperative manner. Whilst on the surface they were side by side with their bodies touching. The Cormorant gently pecked the Platypus on the tail and repeatedly ducked … Read more