I think you don’t know when you are being teased. Or maybe I don’t know when I am, to respond to such a silly thought.
The suggestion that “the bird was feigning death in order to lure down a raptor to take as prey, and that it would have flown off as soon as it had taken enough of them” is clearly drivel. The suggestion of that behaviour is absurd. The suggestion that you could have moved it to under a bush whilst it was feigning death, equally so.
Philip Veerman
—–Original Message—– From: birding-aus-bounces@vicnet.net.au [mailto:birding-aus-bounces@vicnet.net.au] On Behalf Of Peter Shute Sent: Friday, 25 June 2010 10:15 AM To: Steve Potter; birding-aus@vicnet.net.au Subject: [Birding-Aus] RE: What to do with a dead owl?
Thank you for all these excellent suggestions, everyone. Some may have missed my message saying that the bird had disappeared by the time I returned.
I had, however, taken some photos of it with my phone, and from these Rory O’Brien at the Museum of Victoria identified it as being the Tasmanian subspecies, Ninox novaeseelandiae leucopsis. So it has at least been altassed.
It’s tempting to believe one suggestion I received privately, that the bird was feigning death in order to lure down a raptor to take as prey, and that it would have flown off as soon as it had taken enough of them, and I’ll be on the lookout for evidence of this behaviour in future.
Peter Shute
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