Day: July 13, 2020

Beach Stone-curlew eating pipis (Steve McBride)

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Thanks for sharing that Steve.   What a marathon effort to get a meal! Julie Neumann  On 13 Jul 2020, at 2:00 am, birding-aus-request@birding-aus.org wrote: Send Birding-Aus mailing list submissions to birding-aus@birding-aus.orgTo subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.orgor, via email, send a message with subject or body ‘help’ to birding-aus-request@birding-aus.orgYou can … Read more

Curlew capers

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This is an astonishing video Steve, thank you. The Beach Stone Curlews Obviously well practiced in smashing the Pippies and very persistent. Two queries; Could they have initially learned by copying some other spp. ? (Presumably it is a learned behaviour ) ( We have Aus Ravens softening up large lumps of hard, stale and … Read more