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Re: "Red-browed Finches foraging among the seed capsules of the
casuarinas".
To add just a little. I have a diary entry from August '02 were we saw
about 20 Red-browed Finches foraging 4m above the ground among the seed capsules
of a Casaurina cunninghamiana near Shepherds Lookout. I was a little
more surprised, I suppose, to see c.20 European Goldfinches pigging out a metre
lower. Watched for 10 minutes and the two groups maintained their distance,
no intermingling. HANZAB mentions C. cunninghamiana as one of three
casaurinas goldfinches have been noted feeding on as well as the fact they
sometime forage with Red-browed Fireants.
John Layton.
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