When I was in Aus filming on my very last day of my 6 month parrot filming adventure in February of 2009 I still needed one more species to have filmed all Aussie Parrots (except for Night Parrot.. grin) My last was in the Blue Mountains – Glossy-black Cockatoo.
I was about to leave the Tablelands Road area near Wentworth where I had been searching for 3 days when I heard some throaty cries coming from way way up in the air. Barely recognizable because they were just specks in the sky, there were at least 2 Glossies chasing a large raptor (too far away to identify it). They seemed bent on harassing and kept repeatedly swooping at it and giving chase. The raptor seemed unnerved at times and it appeared like they ushered it out of the area. Fortunately for me once it left they spiraled down and then presented themselves to be filmed!
Has anyone else witnessed parrots harassing raptors? I had no idea that they did this and it seemed a bit suicidal to me at the time!
Cheers!
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I have seen Red-tailed Black Cockatoos sidle up next to Black Falcons on a perch. It is a classic example of ‘keep your enemies close to you’ as the BF was unable to launch an attack (if he/she chose to) on these birds if they stayed close. As the BF moved along the perch and away from the RTBC’s, they moved the same distance towards the BF but stayed just far enough away to be out of ‘footing’ distance. When the BF had enough it took off and the RTBC,s chased for about 100 metres and then returned to their normal duties.
Cheers,
Anthony Molyneux Alice Springs
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Not a raptor but while on Norfolk Island this year I watched two Crimson Rosellas continually chase and harass a Red-tailed Tropicbird that was coming into a cliff to land. While the tropicbird was far too agile for the rosellas to get too close it kept coming in to try and land and they kept chasing it off again. Quite amusing.
Cheers Tim
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I saw 4 Rainbow Lorikeets appear to chase after a young Brown Goshawk this afternoon in the north east of Melbourne. Perhaps their noise is also irritating to a bird partly relying on stealth to catch a feed.
Sonja Ross
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was it originally a “Glossy-tailed Black Cockatoo”?
Peter Morgan
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Rainbow Lorikeets and Eastern Rosellas frequently join mixed goups of large honeyeaters, butcherbirds and Magpie-larks in harassing perched Brown Goshawks and Collared Sparrwhawks in our backyard at Coutts Crossing NSW. South of Urunga, NSW, some years ago I witnessed a small flock of Glossy Black-Cockatoos interacting with a Peregrine Falcon. I can’t immediately check the details but as far as I can recall the falcon was not the aggressor.
Greg Dr Greg. P. Clancy Ecologist and Wildlife Guide Coutts Crossing NSW
Hi,
I watched a group of 4 galahs taking it in turns to bait a male Australian Hobby a few years ago. The Hobby was mating/trying to mate with a female but a galah perched nearby would fly up and sqwaak and flap right in the male Hobby’s face until it had had enough and took off and chased the galah at high speed through the trees for a short time (about 10 to 20 seconds) before landing back next to the female for another attempt. The galahs, easily able to outfly the hobby, would land next to his/her mates and another would take its turn to harass the Hobby and repeat the performance. Each galah had 3 or 4 goes while I was watching. They weren’t nesting nearby as far as I could see, and didn’t appear to be trying to drive the Hobby away, but certainly seemed to be enjoying the whole experience. (A bit of anthropomorphising there perhaps.) Funnily they weren’t interested in the female Hobby at all. She just remained perched in the same spot the entire time. The male was successful at mating once but he spent most of the time chasing the galahs.
Cheers
Andrew
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Nice photo Dave. I’ve also seen Sulphur-crested Cockatoos (SCCs) harass Whistling Kites, but in the South-west Slopes area of NSW. I’ve seen SCCs harass Australian Ravens (I know, not a raptor!) in flight as well.
Stephen Ambrose Ryde NSW
Hi Don, I’ve seen Sulphur-crested Cockatoos harrass Whistling Kites up in Weipa.
see images here http://www.pbase.com/davidstowe/image/78627521
Cheers Dave Stowe
When I was in Aus filming on my very last day of my 6 month parrot filming adventure in February of 2009 I still needed one more species to have filmed all Aussie Parrots (except for Night Parrot.. grin) My last was in the Blue Mountains – Glossy-black Cockatoo.
I was about to leave the Tablelands Road area near Wentworth where I had been searching for 3 days when I heard some throaty cries coming from way way up in the air. Barely recognizable because they were just specks in the sky, there were at least 2 Glossies chasing a large raptor (too far away to identify it). They seemed bent on harassing and kept repeatedly swooping at it and giving chase. The raptor seemed unnerved at times and it appeared like they ushered it out of the area. Fortunately for me once it left they spiraled down and then presented themselves to be filmed!
Has anyone else witnessed parrots harassing raptors? I had no idea that they did this and it seemed a bit suicidal to me at the time!
Cheers!
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