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Flying with protection

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Subject: Flying with protection
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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:25:29 +1100 (EST)
That's brilliant: a zombie Magpie perhaps, given the walking (flying?)
dead's legendary penchant for eating fresh brain?

cheers

Craig Williams

> G'day All
>
> Many years ago I saw an Australian Magpie kill a fledgling Yellow-
> rumped Thornbill, eat its brain and then fly off.
>
> Cheers
> Mike
>
>
> Michael Tarburton
> Melbourne
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> On 27/02/2008, at 11:10 AM, Greg & Val Clancy wrote:
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>> I have now checked HANZAB which lists small passerines and some non-
>> passerines in the diet of the Australian Magpie.  Richard's
>> (Australasian) Pipit and pardalote are both listed.  Some of these
>> would be as carrion (roadkills etc.).
>>
>> I am not totally convinced that all attacks by Magpies on pipits
>> constitute foraging as I have witnessed this on dozens of occasions
>> but have never observed a kill.
>>
>>
>> Greg Clancy
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