Hi all,
What a lucky bird to have survived this long! It's a sad fact that many
Bowerbirds especially Satin and Great Bowerbirds perish from getting plastic
caught around their heads or necks. The most common scenario is when the
ring from around a plastic bottle top gets caught around the birds neck and
essentially chokes it to death.
Not much can be done to stop this from occurring other than cutting all
plastic rings in half before disposing them, especially if you know there
are Bowerbirds about.
It sounds trivial and although plastic rings don't have a serious impact on
Bowerbird populations (not to my knowledge anyway), there is no harm in
performing this simple task to help reduce chance of this occurring to one
of the Bowerbirds in your local area.
Regards,
Kurtis Lindsay
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From:
On Behalf Of desley williams
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:24 AM
To: Birds Chat Line
Subject: Bird with Red bottletop around beak/head identified
To Birding Aus From Desley Williams member BOCA Mackay
I refer to my email sent early Sept. regarding an unidentified bird with a
red rubberband or bottletop around its beak and head seen at our Baptist
church service, which operates under a school building. I saw that bird
about 5 weeks later, still surviving; and again last Sunday 16th; it is
very good condition and we got a close up view, it is definitely a Great
Bowerbird; and the red item is a bottletop. Two teenagers had earlier seen
it very close so we may be able to catch it.
After the 2nd sighting in early Oct, I asked the school secretary if the
Gardener had seen it but despite a search of the grounds then a since, he
has never seen it, niether have any of the teaching staff; her suggestion
was perhaps it is attracted to the church music on Sundays. She gave
permission for the local Mackay BOCA to look for it during school holidays;
and hopefully find a bower and try to catch it. I assume it is feeding
on the fig trees in the grounds; there is also a school nature reserve.
Can anyone explain how this bird would be able to eat and drink. Regards
Desley Williams
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