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Land of Parrots - raptors

To: Mick Roderick <>, Tim Dolby <>, Wendy <>, Birding Aus <>
Subject: Land of Parrots - raptors
From: Denise Goodfellow <>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 14:42:27 +0930
Mick, I saw the Black Falcon and the harrier.


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on 5/5/08 1:40 PM, Mick Roderick at  wrote:

> Hi,
> Yeah, I admit that there was a bit of rhetoric in my question as I thought it
> was a Hobby.
> But like Tim said, there were several other raptors shown before the
> prey-catch (incl. Spotted Harrier).
>  
> The reason I put the question out there is cos not long before the Hobby got
> the bird I'm sure there was footage of a Black Falcon in flight. Did anybody
> else see that?
>  
> We're a funny lot...'twitching' raptors on a Parrot doco. It was a great
> exercise in raptor ID though and we've already had 4 differing ID's in under
> an hour...
>  
> Re: the Kite calls, Black Kites can sound almost identical to a Whistling
> Kite...just lacking the fast, descending whistle that Whistlers have. But I
> did think the call was from a Whistling Kite and it's not out of the question
> that the camera was on a Black and there were Whistlers around and that's what
> we heard.
>  
> Mick
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Tim Dolby <>
> To: Mick Roderick <>; Wendy <>;
> Birding-aus <>
> Sent: Monday, 5 May, 2008 11:51:27 AM
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Land of Parrots - raptors
>
> Yes, initially they showed a Brown Falcon sitting on a branch. Then
> (from memory) a few other hawks (Black Kite) in between. Then the
> footage of the hawk taking the budgie, which was definitely a Little
> Falcon / Australian Hobby.
>
> Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>  On Behalf Of Mick Roderick
> Sent: Monday, 5 May 2008 11:32 AM
> To: Wendy; Birding-aus
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Land of Parrots - raptors
>
> Did anybody get an ID on the raptor that grabbed the Budgie!?
>
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