Worth mentioning is this moving video from a few years ago;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KQAxzELHgM
And the rather different behavioural explanation.
http://www.improbable.com/2009/04/03/unusual-swallow-necrophilia/
Jeremy
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Carl Clifford <>wrote:
> It may have to remain shrouded in mystery.
>
> On 03/09/2012, at 8:33 AM, "Chris Lloyd" <> wrote:
>
> > I have seen similar behaviour with Cacatuidae in general and SCCs in
> > particular. On one occasion I came through the lights at the
> intersection of
> > King George's Road and Princess Highway in Carss Park and found five SCCs
> > gathered around or near a dead conspecific in the gutter. Those familiar
> > with this southern Sydney intersection will be used to the spectacle of
> SCCs
> > and Little Corellas dive bombing the six lanes of traffic and
> occasionally
> > getting hit - no different to any other group of 25somethings in WRXs or
> > Lancers on the Queens turnpike.
> >
> >
> >
> > So knowing there was serious risk of the rest of this gang of miscreants
> > becoming tread marks I picked up the body, to much vocalization, and
> took it
> > home to Arncliffe (about three kilometres as the cocky flies). On going
> to
> > the flat block's bins I was verbally assaulted by about four SCC's who
> > appeared to have followed my car - one had a bare shoulder which
> identified
> > it as either a double or the same bird back at the roadside.
> >
> >
> >
> > Interpretation? Well I have always been a great admirer of Donald
> Rumsfeld
> > both sartorially (that combat boot/pin stripe ensemble was beyond Zegna)
> and
> > his turn of phrase "We don't know what we don't know". So for me, like
> > Donny, a known, unknown.
> >
> >
> >
> > This is one of numerous incidents like this involving cockys spp. and
> Indian
> > Mynahs on roadsides that I have seen in both the city and the country.
> >
> >
> >
> > Chris Lloyd
> >
> >
> >
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