I have worked on the NSW National parks & Wildlife Service (Office of
Environment and Heritage) Wild Count project over the past two years. This
project uses four cameras set about 500 m apart. One camera was attacked
and the plastic grid covering the lens area was ripped off. We had set a
peanut butter and rolled oats bait in a tea ball on a stake and it had been
viciously attacked. I had put my money on a Yowie attack but when we
checked the photos it was a young Wedge-tailed Eagle. It was in a heavily
forested site on a slope so would have been hard to see. The Eagle may have
been attracted to the smell of the bait.
Regards
Greg
Dr Greg. P. Clancy
Ecologist and Birding-wildlife Guide
| PO Box 63 Coutts Crossing NSW 2460
| 02 6649 3153 | 0429 601 960
http://www.gregclancyecologistguide.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Holly
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 7:46 AM
To: Birding-aus
Subject: Footage reveals sea eagle stole camera
nearcrocodilemeat trap in remote Kimberley
A friend of mine reported to me recently that a Wedge-tailed Eagle attacked
a wildlife camera that he had set up on a dead pig and also the same
occurred with a Whistling Kite attacking a camera at a wetland where he had
several cameras set up, I wonder is it something to do with the infra red
detection beam
Doug Holly
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