I haven't seen that, but I've noticed recently that whenever the local New
Holland and White-plumed Honeyeaters all start up their alarm cries, I look
around for a raptor but only see a mapgpie gliding over.
Peter Shute
wrote on Wednesday, 8 October 2008 9:53 AM:
> 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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