Two beautiful sky blue eggs have recently fallen into my Sydney suburban
backyard - presumably from the lemon scented gum almost overhead. One was
broken, the other (which arrived a few days later) intact. It was exactly
30mm long.
I'm in Botany, where we mostly just have the usual suburban backyard mix of
noisy miners, starlings, Indian Mynas, spotted turtle doves, plus a good few
New Holland honeyeaters although heaven help them if their eggs are as big
as this. Some black-faced cuckoo shrikes have also been floating around
recently.
I was wondering if anybody had an idea what species the eggs may belong to.
Cheers
Mark Whittaker
-----Original Message-----
From: K,K&E Lindsay
Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2003 5:26
To: Birding Aus
Subject: What ate this Rainbow lorikeet?
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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