Hi everyone,
I work at Monash University in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne
and have recently seen some bizarre behaviour from a magpie lark near
work. After you get off the Monash freeway at Forster Rd. there are
traffic lights as you wait to turn into Forster Rd. For the last 6-9
months there has been a Magpie-lark spending a lot of time at this
intersection and it will continuously fly betwen the two cars at the
front of the line (while they are stopped) pecking and attacking
reflections in the windows, roof and mirrors. It only ever seems to
attack the front cars in the line. More interestingly recently it
appears to have learnt to car surf; as the cars start and go around the
corner it will stay on the roof for a while and then (purposefully?)
slide down the windscreen of the car as it get faster round the corner.
As the car gets up to around 20-30 km/hr it will then open up its wings
and fly/get blown over the top of the car and back to where it can
attack the next set of cars. This behaviour appears to be all about
having fun rather than attacking any possible reflected intruder.
John
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