In a similar vein...
I wandered out into the garden yesterday wondering what had the local
silvereyes so excited (there's a Collared Sparrowhawk cruises through
occasionally) and discovered them aggressively chasing a Red Wattebird
down the garden. The chase appeared to have started in one of our
flowering callistemons. Defending a food source perhaps? Maybe it's
just the hot weather :-).
John Brannan
I have seen a Red Wattlebird at ANBG
fly about 40 metres to attack a group of choughs on the ground.
Probably similar pointless aggression. Bird aggression is often
directed at things that are a danger or things that are rare and
obviously different from the usual. The latter doesn't explain Ian's
obs. RW and Magpies both being common.
Philip
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[canberrabirds] standoff at the NBG
No, nothing to do with previous correspondence. These two spent some
time this morning adopting threatening postures at close range,
interrupted regularly when one of them flew at the other (both 'started
it' at different times); the resultant brawl always ended in another
standoff. I've not seen this before and it's hard to imagine what they
were intending to achieve.
cheers all
Ian
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