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RE: Re: [Birding-Aus] You would have to be a Goose to Try This

To: "" <>, Gary Wright <>
Subject: RE: Re: [Birding-Aus] You would have to be a Goose to Try This
From: Peter Shute <>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:31:40 +1100
I've often seen domestic pigeons do similar things in flight.  Most of them 
don't do it very often, so I've assumed the ones that do are at least partly 
descended from the roller and tumbler varieties, which are selectively bred for 
these traits, and I assume the ability to perform tight loops and sudden 
swerves were originally for escaping raptor attacks.

I could believe that might apply to a cockatoo, but maybe not a goose.

Peter Shute

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Subject: Re: Re: [Birding-Aus] You would have to be a Goose to Try This


I've often seen Sulphur-crested Cockies do this sporadic movement when they are 
coming into land where they have this jerky movement from side to side. Could 
this be them whiffling to reduce speed?

Regards,
Mark


> Gary Wright <> wrote:
>
> Hi Carl
>
> My son is a parachutist and he did a bit of whiffling of his own
> recently.
> He sent me a photograph of himself coming into a formation and he was
> upside down.  I asked him what he was doing upside down and he replied
> "it takes a lifetime to learn to fly"
>
> Not for a goose!
>
> Gary
>
> 2009/12/22 Carl Clifford <>
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> >  I have never regarded Geese as contortionists. I stand corrected.
> See:
> >
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5353933/Goose-photographed-f
> lyi
> ng-upside-down.html
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Carl Clifford
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