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Subject: lesser vultures
From: (John Leonard)
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:36:22 +1100 (EST)
I don't see why we assume that smaller birds seen at road-kills &c are
always looking for maggots. I don't see that it would be too much of a
different diet for birds who ordinarily eat inscts to include bits of meat
in their diet, or that it would be too difficult for little beaks to pull
bits of meat off a rotting carcass so long as the hide was already broken.

I once saw a party of Mallee Ringnecks at a road-kill and they seemed to be
ripping into the flesh alright.




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