G'day all
My office looks out over a nice garden planted to some dense local native
shrubs. The two main resident bird species are New Holland Honeyeaters
and House Sparrows. Both have nests scattered through the shrubs. As I
write an adult male Australian Magpie is systematically working through
the denser shrubs looking for nests. The honeyeaters and sparrows are
frantically watching all this. I don't know how successful the Magpie is
but he has been doing this several times a day for weeks now.
Hanzab reports birds as a minor prey item for Magpies and has few examples
of Magpies taking eggs or nestlings. This individual seems to have become
something of a specialist nest raider.
Cheers
Steve Clark
Hamilton, Victoria
http://members.datafast.net.au/clarkja/swvicbirds/
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