Dear all A comment from Steve Debus for your information. Shirley Cook —– Original Message —– From: “Steve Debus” <sdebus@une.edu.au> To: “Shirley Cook” <shirleycook@skymesh.com.au> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 5:31 PM Subject: RE: [SPAM?] Fw: [Birding-Aus] Pacific Baza Hi Shirley, I think the intense autumn territorial behaviour may be caused by southern migrants passing through the territories of northern birds (they actually cross Torres Strait on migration). Autumn also seems to encourage a general resurgence of raptor aerial display, after the moult. I hadn’t heard of the wing-clapping component of undulating display, but it doesn’t surprise me because bazas are closely related to honey-buzzards. A nice little extra snippet for the literature on Bazas; I’ll put it in Boobook, duly attributed. Would that the other Birding-Ausers were as observant and tell us what the birds are actually doing (if significant or interesting), as well as the endless tick lists with little else. Cheers, Steve —–Original Message—– From: Shirley Cook [mailto:shirleycook@skymesh.com.au] Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2014 4:53 PM To: Steve Debus Subject: [SPAM?] Fw: [Birding-Aus] Pacific Baza Importance: Low Are you able to comment? Regards Shirley —– Original Message —– From: “Dominic Funnell” <dominic_funnell@yahoo.com> To: <birding-aus@birding-aus.org> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 1:54 PM Subject: [Birding-Aus] Pacific Baza Here in Yorkeys (suburb north of Cairns) the local Pacific Baza get very vocal and visible in the autumn / winter. Over the last couple of days I have been watching what I assume is their display flight; a single bird making a very undulating flight with the occasional roll but on about four occasions I have watched a bird wing clapping in a manner similar to European Honey Buzzards. It goes up reasonably high and then descends in broad circles “clapping” its wings together above its body. Is this usual behavior as I can find no reference to it in my limited resources. Dom _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org