Thank you Michael.
Tony
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From: michael norris
Sent: Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:22 PM
To: Tony Russel;
Subject: Lorikeet foods - includes meat
It should have been published as a database that could be updated - but its
on paper and not updated:
Barker, R.D. and Vestjens, W.J.M. The food of Australian birds (2 vols)
CSIRO 1990. I guess the info has gone into HANZAB (which should be an
updatable on-line resource).
>From memory you can look up a bird in the books and see what it was known to
eat, or look at a plant and see what birds feed on it (or perhaps I just did
that for myself).
In Melbourne Rainbow Lorikeets are now in plague proportions in Melbourne
largely due to the 1970s fad for planting Australian native - rather than
indigenous - trees. Feeding them with sugar solution etc. doesn't help to
keep down their numbers!
I have several times seen them feeding on minced meat, stuck in lumps on
branches in a park by some kind person for the butcherbirds.
Michael Norris
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