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Re: [hunterbirding] Predation by Pied Butcherbird

To: Hunterbirding <>, Graeme Stevens <>
Subject: Re: [hunterbirding] Predation by Pied Butcherbird
From: davids2420 via Hunterbirding <>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 04:46:21 +0000

A few years back Crested Pigeons used to nest in my yard in an old Oleander bush. The nested several times but Pied Butcherbirds would always take the young just before they fledged. They didn't appear to eat much of the carcass. Just pick holes in their backs.
Last season I saw a Grey Butcherbird take a just fledged Willy Wagtail. Sucks being a baby bird.
Dave
On Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 01:01:21 pm AEST, Graeme Stevens <> wrote:



A contact in the Cooranbong area supplied this image with a report of a Pied Butcherbird attempting to take a Peaceful Dove and then successfully killing and eating the intestines from this Bar-shouldered Dove.

HANZAB certainly references PBs taking small passerines like House Sparrow and Double-Barred Finch, but this seems like an unusually large prey item?

Graeme Stevens 


 

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