Hi All,
I was visiting a friend out near Macs Reef Road and upon walking around in
the casuarina stand she has saw a pretty unique and fascinating thing...
...a Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo...completely invese (ie, black tail
flashes and completely yellow all over). Have any of you guys seen / heard
of this thing happening in YTBC's or any other species before? I 'm curious
to know how often this genentic mixup occurs (it complements the albino
brushtailed possum I've seen in tassie too!)
Cheers, Geoff.
.--_/\ Geoff Kay
/ \ 'Waminda' c/o Hall
\_.--.._/ PO ACT 2618
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From: "Clifton" <>
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Subject: [canberrabirds] 3 raptors
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:23:53 +1000
On a trip to Orange last week, 2 interesting sightings and one that amazed
me.
1. Just N of Cowra on the Canowindra Rd a Spotted Harrier on the wing over
old stubble.
2. Peregrine Falcon with prey (Starling ?) in talons flying over suburban
Orange.
3.On the Canowindra/Cargo/Orange Rd I spotted a Wedge Tailed Eagle on the
ground in a cereal crop. I wondered if it had killed a rabbit or hare (the
crop was too tall to see). 200m further on there was another WTE between
the road and fence also sitting on the ground. I had a sinking feeling as
I pulled up and walked back up the road as I expected to find it had been
in a collision with a car. As I approached, it flew up with something in
its talons and dropped it before reaching fence height. The WTE left the
scene. The bundle was 2 young Crows, just about fully feathered but in my
view not at the flying stage. One was dead and the other OK but clinging
tightly to its dead sibling. I located the 2WTEs in a tree further down
the valley and they were being harrassed by 2 Crows (Aust Ravens). On
returning two days later, the dead juvenille was unmoved and a Crow was
calling in a nearby tree but I didn't have time to look for a living
Juvenille.
So what happened. I have a theory. The WTEs raided the nest of the Crows
and one WTE took 1 sibling and the other also took 1 but the third sibling
got a free ride by hanging on with a vice like grip to its dead sibling.
Question. Have WTE ever been recorded as nest raiders? Is there another
explanation for the situation I found?
I also saw a flight of 8 Supurb Parrots just S of Boorowa.
Graeme Clifton
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