Hello all,
In his post "Good Friday in Sydney's Royal National Park", Tom Wilson wrote:
"A Superb Lyrebird by the river - but the accompanying small birds
were not Pilotbird but 2 yellow Throated Scrubwren"
Here in the Blue Mountains NSW, it is most often the scrubwrens that
accompany lyrebirds in the pursuit of morsels uncovered by the larger
bird's feet. I've also seen Eastern Yellow Robins do this.
Last winter I spent quite a bit of time working with the Superb
Lyrebirds at Scenic World near Katoomba. There, the foraging
lyrebirds were nearly always attended by small groups of White-browed
and Yellow-throated Scrubwrens, not only darting around the feet of
the lyrebirds, but also descending on freshly scratched areas
immediately after the lyrebird had moved on.
First thing each morning, well before the tourists arrived, there
would be literally dozens of scrubwrens on and around the boardwalk.
It occurred to me that the feeding opportunities created by the high
concentration of lyrebirds in that area almost certainly enables a
larger population of scrubwrens to exist at that location than would
otherwise be possible.
I gather that Pilotbirds are much more likely to be seen accompanying
lyrebirds in the forests of Victoria than up here in the Sydney
region. Here I rarely see Pilotbirds following lyrebirds as they are
renowned to do, and in fact I most often see them in places where the
understorey is too dense for lyrebirds.
Cheers,
Carol
Carol Probets
Blue Mountains NSW
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