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Imm Pallid Cuckoo - rubber band around throat & back of head

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Subject: Imm Pallid Cuckoo - rubber band around throat & back of head
From: desley williams <>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:43:12 +0000
>From Desley Williams  Mackay

Last week whilst attending the Baptist Church which is set up each Sunday under 
a school building (don't have a hall yet) there was what I believe to be an 
immature Pallid Cuckoo rarely seen in Mackay which was sitting on a chair.  
There was red on both sides at the back of its mouth which was partly open, 
assuming it could not shut it completely.   At first I through it was blood but 
one of the Deacons said "look at the back of its head, there is red there also; 
it's a rubber band or the lid of a bottle."   I could see a bit of red under 
the feathers at the back of the head.   I tried to catch it, but it flew out 
and landed on a railing; tried to catch it again but it flew and landed on a 
roof.  I did not see it again.

Does anybody have any clues as to how this could have happened.  If children 
had done it I wonder how they would catch it because I could not catch it.  
Perhaps it would break the plastic/rubber band or perhaps it could still eat 
with its mouth partly open.

Regards Desley Williams
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