Footage reveals sea eagle stole camera nearcrocodilemeat trap in remote Kimberley

I have worked on the NSW National parks & Wildlife Service (Office of Environment and Heritage) Wild Count project over the past two years. This project uses four cameras set about 500 m apart. One camera was attacked and the plastic grid covering the lens area was ripped off. We had set a peanut butter and rolled oats bait in a tea ball on a stake and it had been viciously attacked. I had put my money on a Yowie attack but when we checked the photos it was a young Wedge-tailed Eagle. It was in a heavily forested site on a slope so would have been hard to see. The Eagle may have been attracted to the smell of the bait. Regards Greg Dr Greg. P. Clancy Ecologist and Birding-wildlife Guide | PO Box 63 Coutts Crossing NSW 2460 | 02 6649 3153 | 0429 601 960 http://www.gregclancyecologistguide.com http://gregswildliferamblings.blogspot.com.au/ —–Original Message—– From: Doug Holly Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 7:46 AM To: Birding-aus Subject: [Birding-Aus] Footage reveals sea eagle stole camera nearcrocodilemeat trap in remote Kimberley A friend of mine reported to me recently that a Wedge-tailed Eagle attacked a wildlife camera that he had set up on a dead pig and also the same occurred with a Whistling Kite attacking a camera at a wetland where he had several cameras set up, I wonder is it something to do with the infra red detection beam Doug Holly =============================== 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 =============================== =============================== 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 ===============================