Hello All,
Discussion on Rats and Currawongs is interesting,the domestic
rat can grow to enormous size,one that drowned itself in my loo when I
lived and was renovating a house in Ainslie,was the size of a cat,body was
270 mm long,believe me such a creature would be a fearsome adversary,we had
previously wondered what had been neatly slicing pieces from our 10 mm thick
Plastic cutting board,a thumb would have been easily severed..As a boy
living in Braddon,we had chooks killed by rats,anecdotally I have heard of
lambs and piglets being killed....I think dead adult rats being eaten by
Currawongs,are more likely victims to dogs,cats,sickness or poisening...but
another possibility is that the large Finch nest like dreys which I have
seen in suburban bushes and trees are perhaps raided by the Currawongs who
come from underneath and the ratlings fall through...I remember seeing and
reporting to the old Hotline,a Currawong chiselling a hole in the side of a
tree to penetrate the nesting chamber of a Crimson Rosella,so it is
feasible...Terry Gourlay.
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