Noisy Miners do this in native plants too. I've watched them in grevillea in
Maranoa Gardens in suburban Melbourne.
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Judith L-A
Sent: Sunday, 15 October 2017 5:10 PM
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Subject: exotic nectar "theft"
Watching Noisy Miners in the golden trumpet trees, I see that they are piercing
the bases of the large flowers to access the nectar. I had heard of birds doing
this with introduced blooms the world over but had not seen it before. I'm
guessing Darwin never got to see this…?
For those collecting such data, this exotic genus, used as street trees in
Brisbane for their brief but spectacular blossoming, (& flowering a bit later
up here,) are as follows – "Tabebuia aurea is a species of Tabebuia native to
South America in Suriname, Brazil, eastern Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, and
northern Argentina." <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabebuia_aurea>
Judith
SEQ asl 500m
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