Hello,
I woke up this morning thinking that the Magpies are really bad at
imitating Red Wattlebirds, but it turned out to be a set of what I
conjectured to be Little Wattlebirds on yet another Bottlebrush. I didn't
get to see the eye colour (I had just woken up, and it was raining), but
I base my identification on Allan Morris' mentioning that they were common
around here, although I am a bit worried it might be a brush wattlebird,
since the chuckle was kept up for a while. Is there any other way of
distinguishing the two species?
Kiran
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, David Hair wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> Kiran Krishna says that the magpies in his area are getting good at
> imitating Koels. Where I live at Heathcote, in southern Sydney, it's the
> Indian Mynas that sound like Koels. The volume is much lower but, unless you
> listen carefully, you'd swear there was a Koel calling in the distance.
>
> Cheers,
> David Hair.
>
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Kiran Krishna
3rd yr physics
(Falkiner High Energy Physics)
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
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Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Instead, bereft
Of anyone to please, it withers so,
Having no heart to put aside the theft
And turn again to what it started as,
A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide. You can see how it was:
Look at the pictures and the cutlery.
The music in the piano stool. That vase.
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