I'm surprised by how little Blackbirds seem to impinge on native birds in
Canberra, they don't seem very numerous or visible at all. On the other
hand I am impressed by the way that they have spread to places like
Robinvale on the Murray (so unlike northern Europe).
What does surprise me is that they haven't discovered Wet Forest by now
(the habitat closest to their original one in Europe); if they had I'm sure
they'd have been through it like the proverbial dose of salts, in the
process displacing various ground feeders.
However it doesn't appear that they have, so let's hope there's something
wrong with se Australian Wet Forest, from a Blackbird point-of-view (not
enough worms, not the right sort of worms, or whatever) and that Australian
Wet Forests stay Blackbird free (unlike NZ forests, and the bush on Lord
Howe Island).
John Leonard
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