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>From: "Keith Barnes [ADU]" <>
>To: Hugo Phillipps <>
>Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 10:00:35 SAST-2
>Subject: Re: Seeking information.
>Priority: normal
>
>> evolved associated fauna. Are American warblers trying (albeit clumsily,
>> without the right beak shapes, tongue lengths and brushes, or naked faces)
>> to get the nectar ?
>
>In Africa I've seen sunbirds, which happen to have the right beak
>shape, tongue length and brushes quite efficiently and frequently
>obtain nectar from Eucalypts, which conveniently flower when a lot of
>the indigenous stuff isn't....
>
>It begs the question, in 100 000 years will the world be inhabited by
>psuedo-honeyeaters?
>......................................................................
>Keith Barnes
>Avian Demography Unit
>Department of Statistical Sciences
>University of Cape Town
>Rondebosch
>7700
>South Africa
>
>Tel (021) 650-2330 Fax (021) 650-3726
>
Hugo Phillipps,
Birds Australia Conservation & Liaison,
Australian Bird Research Centre,
415 Riversdale Road,
Hawthorn East, VIC 3123, Australia.
Tel: +61 3 9882 2622. Fax: +61 3 9882 2677.
Email: <>
The Virtual Emu: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~raou/raou.html
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