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| To: | Canberra Birds <> |
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| Subject: | BFCS gliding behaviour |
| From: | John Leonard <> |
| Date: | Fri, 13 May 2005 15:01:27 +1000 |
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This is an observation I made a couple of months ago, back in March, but forgot to report at the time.
At the time there was an enormous collection of immature Magpie-larks hanging around the Hughes Oval and nearby. On one occasion they were being particularly perturbed by a BF Cuckoo-shrike which was doing a territorial flight out from a tall tree and gliding round a big circuit. When it came near the Magpie-larks they all went berserk and took off. I didn't realise why until I got closer and the BFCS went round again; from the front a gliding BFCS in silhouette looks remarkably like a Sparrowhawk. -- John Leonard Canberra Australia www.jleonard.net |
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