Saw a Grey Shrike-thrush with a large hairy caterpillar at Somersby Falls
(Gosford area NSW Central Coast) just yesterday.
Allan Richardson
Morisset NSW
On 27/04/2012, at 12:47 PM, Trevor Quested wrote:
> I always understood only cuckoos could eat hairy caterpillars. We have many
> Processionary Caterpillars on our block in Bundaberg, Qld at the moment. We
> have just witnessed an Olive-backed Oriole eat five caterpillars in a row.
> The bird shook each one for some time before swallowing them. There is a bird
> bath nearby and the Oriole didn't drink at all during the feeding.
> Trevor Quested
> Bundaberg. Qld.
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