It is certainly interesting the sort of birds that you discover are
periodically in your neighbourhood. My near-neighbour in the southern
suburbs of Brisbane, Rob Dougherty, had a Noisy Pitta toss in its
marbles on one of his windows last week. We live at the base of a
hill covered with dry sclerophyll which is normally good for the odd
Whipbird, Goshawk, Boobook, Frogmouth etc., but it's hardly the sort
of environment you'd expect to find a Pitta in and there is no
corridor linking it to the rainforest in Brisbane Forest Park.
Perhaps it was heading south towards the McPherson Range ...
On 16/05/2008, at 9:28 PM, Jan England wrote:
I arrived home this afternoon from Melbourne to find a dead Rose-
crowned Fruit-dove in my garden. It had crashed into my bedroom
window (where the blinds were closed) but in the process of hitting
the window it had broken a wing and both its top and bottom
mandibles were smashed. Not only that, it left a complete white
powdery outline of its body with the wings outstretched on the
window. It must have been flying at a very fast rate. Maybe the
local goshawk was chasing it! They often call from just across from
my house and a sad ending for such a beautiful bird.
Jan
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