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What ate this Rainbow lorikeet?

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Subject: What ate this Rainbow lorikeet?
From: "K,K&E Lindsay" <>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 17:25:59 +1100
Hi all,
 
Today I found a scattered pile of dead rainbow lorikeet feathers,there was feathers of the whole bird there but there was no body parts or meat other than the birds beakless and featherless whole skull with the first vertabrae.
The remains were very fresh when I found them at about 2:40 today and the beakless skull stil had the brain in it,what I find wierd was the way the skull was picked clean of the meat and feathers and it was missing the beak.
Does anyone have any ideas?
I know it wasn't a cat because cats are quite messy,could it have been and owl or a quoll?
Please let me know what you think.
 
Cheers,
Kurtis Lindsay
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