On a similar predator/pet note, I was speaking to a neighbour 2 months ago,
and she said that one evening whilst walking her dog at an off-leash park
in Balgowlah (Sydney) a few days before, a Powerful Owl had made an attempt
on it (she actually said something like "a very large owl with white and
brown" which would have to be by assumption a PO), and apparently it had
the Lucy the terrier pinned on the ground before the owner ran at it
screaming causing it to fly off, leaving Lucy unharmed. I have also had a
family friend tell me a similar story regarding their small dog being
attacked by a Powerful Owl in their backyard, which is coincidentally only
100m from where my assigned Sydney Powerful Owl Project birds nest. I had
always thought POs attacking pets was a myth, but maybe not...
Just another good reason to keep your cats inside at night
Cheers,
Joshua Bergmark
On 3 June 2013 10:37, brian fleming <> wrote:
> When I was a child we kept canaries in a large wire-fronted cage on a
> sunny back wall. We were always warned that a Grey Butcherbird might
> attack them - the method being to fly at or perch on the cage- the
> frightened inmates would attempt to escape by fluttering at the wire and
> would then be stabbed by the Butcherbird's beak. Sometimes the Butcherbird
> would succeed in pulling the victim out through the wires, sometimes it
> couldn't manage this. It was a good argument for fine-mesh cage wires. We
> never had any casualties.
>
> One bird-keeping neighbour shot Butcherbirds with an air-gun, and
> encouraged his son to shoot at them with a shanghai. I would expect
> similar predatory behaviour from Currawongs, but in the 1940s and '50s they
> were never seen in Melbourne suburbs. Butcherbirds were also accused of
> carrying off newly hatched chickens and ducklings.
>
> Anthea Fleming
>
>
> On 3/06/2013 7:13 AM, Scott Ryan wrote:
>
>> Hi Matthew & All,
>> I've also heard of Butcherbirds killing small aviary birds in the way you
>> suggest. I've also known mice to eat remains of birds if the budgie had
>> died, possibly from some another cause & they are able to get into some
>> amazingly tight places. Just another line of thought
>> Regards,
>> Scott
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 02/06/2013, at 7:31 PM, Matthew Roach <
>> net <>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> An acquaintance of ours had two pet budgies in a normal wire cage in
>>> their garden, in south-eastern Melbourne, and saw the two birds happily in
>>> the cage one afternoon, before returning inside for the night. In the
>>> morning, they found one Budgie still alive in the cage, with the other
>>> budgies remains on the floor of the cage; it had been killed and mostly
>>> eaten. We assumed that it wasn’t the other Budgie who did this, and seeing
>>> as the cage probably could not have been accessed by a cat or fox, we
>>> thought that a butcherbird may have been the culprit. They are found in
>>> their garden, but it must have stuck its beak through the gaps in the cage
>>> in order to get it, yet this must have been a bit of an effort. Has this
>>> behaviour been observed before?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Matthew Roach.
>>>
>>>
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