Hi Wendy,
Nearly 20 years ago my wife and I stayed at Barrington Guest House, at the foot
of Barrington Tops in the north of the Hunter Valley, for our 10th wedding
anniversary. T-bone steak was served in the evening meal and the bones were all
thrown on a large fire area where the scraps are burnt. The following morning
there were three animals at the bone stack eating meat off the bones, yet all
three are all normally generally regarded as feeding on vegetable matter. They
were Crimson Rosellas, Sating Bowerbirds and Eastern Grey Kangaroos. I guess
meat is too nutritious a food for just about anybody not to take advantage when
the opportunity arises.
Allan Richardson
Morisset NSW
On 20/01/2012, at 4:31 PM, Wendy McWilliams wrote:
> I've just done 'the steps' in the Dandenong Ranges (Ferntree Gully, Victoria)
> and in the picnic/bbq area an adult Crimson Rosella was holding a chicken
> bone (thigh I think) in one claw and nibbling bits of chicken off it. Two
> juveniles were watching, so no doubt it will be a learned practice before too
> long. Extraordinary!
> Wendy McWilliams, Glen Waverley
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