Bird with Red bottletop around beak/head identified

[John Tongue <>]

One of the milk companies here in Tasmania has introduced bottle cap  
rings that break as you open them, too.  Mostly at the instigation of  
a young teenage activist!
JohnTongue
Ulverstone, Tas.


On 19/11/2008, at 8:18 PM, Bill Stent wrote:

> Bill here, currently working a year in Bergen in Norway.
>
> The bottle caps they have here automatically tear when you open them,
> preventing anything like this from happening.  The ring ends up  
> attached as
> a tail, not a loop, to the cap.
>
> I wonder how difficult it would be to regulate for such a design in  
> Oz?
> It's probably not difficult if the design already exists.  There may  
> be
> patent fees to pay, but I'm sure the designers would be very  
> amenable to
> negotiation.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
>  On Behalf Of Rob Geraghty
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2008 9:27 AM
> To: Birding Aus
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Bird with Red bottletop around beak/head
> identified
>
> --- On Wed, 11/19/08, Kurtis Lindsay <> wrote:
> > 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.
> And it could be easily prevented in the case of Satin Bowerbirds  
> simply by
> avoiding shades of blue that they're attracted to.  Do Great  
> Bowerbirds have
> particular colour preferences?  I've only seen Satin Bowerbird bowers.
>
> Rob
>
>
>
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