birding-aus

Powerful owl in Sydney Botanical Gardens interesting feeding behaviour

To:
Subject: Powerful owl in Sydney Botanical Gardens interesting feeding behaviour
From: rob hynson <>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:53:31 +0100 (BST)
Hi All,

the Powerful Owl in the Sydney Botanical Gardens was seen again in a White Fig 
tree between the conservatory of music and Government house. 


Interestingly, the bird appeared to be feeding on small figs in the tree, some 
photos can been seen here http://www.pbase.com/rob_hynson/powerful_owl

The bird initially reached up and pulled down a branch containing some figs 
and appeared to be eating them. After a while it was able to reach its head up 
to get to the figs and again, appeared to be eating them.

Has anyone seen this type of behaviour in a Powerful Owl, or any other species 
of Owl before? A brief look though HANZAB did not bring up anything other than 
birds, mammals and insects in their diet for which the results are based on 
pellet samples (presumably if Powerful Owls do eat figs this wouldn't appear in 
the their pellets but in their feces). 


Looking forward to hearing from others on this,

cheers,

Rob
===============================

To unsubscribe from this mailing list,
send the message:
unsubscribe
(in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to: 

http://birding-aus.org
===============================

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Admin

The University of NSW School of Computer and Engineering takes no responsibility for the contents of this archive. It is purely a compilation of material sent by many people to the birding-aus mailing list. It has not been checked for accuracy nor its content verified in any way. If you wish to get material removed from the archive or have other queries about the archive e-mail Andrew Taylor at this address: andrewt@cse.unsw.EDU.AU