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Re: Collective bird nouns and heron tucker.

To: "Martin and Frances" <>, "chat line" <>
Subject: Re: Collective bird nouns and heron tucker.
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:17:49 +1000
Martin  -  You may wish to mention, perhaps casually, at  the next meeting of the Jamaica Bay Audubon Chapter, if you can be heard above the scream of the jets departing from JFK, that according to HANZAB, our Australian reference,  the Rufous Night Heron not only feeds on newly-hatched sea-turtles but, at Raine Island (north Queensland), times its breeding to coincide with the emergence of the turtle hatchlings.
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