3 frogmouths together on a wire
By Birding-Aus, on November 28th, 2013
I observed 3 frogmouths in suburbia last night. One flew onto the phone line and was quickly joined 2 others. They behaved a bit like a trio of Noisy Miners messing about and made unusual whispery calls. Perhaps they were a family group. Regards, Laurie. =============================== 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 ===============================
G’day All Laurie that sounds like a parent and two young. The parents get them out of the nest tree at a fairly early age and from then on the young give a “whispery: begging call almost continuously. Unfortunately cats pick up on these calls and target the young birds. I have chased cats out of the tree the young were in in the middle of the night. then had one of the young disappear the only night I was not there in 11 nights to chase the cats away!. Cheers & Happy frogmouth watching Mike Tarburton I observed 3 frogmouths in suburbia last night. One flew onto the phone line and was quickly joined 2 others. They behaved a bit like a trio of Noisy Miners messing about and made unusual whispery calls. Perhaps they were a family group. Regards, Laurie. =============================== ————————- Email sent using Optus Webmail =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================