Hmmm ... I can think of a couple of possibilities, Martin. For
the time being I would regard it as a responsibility g
From: martin butterfield
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Sent: Sunday, 23 September 2007 2:16 PM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: [canberrabirds] An ovoid puzzle
I have just been wandering in part of our property and came
across the egg shown in the attachment. It is full - whether fertile or
not I am not sure. My first thought was domestic chook, but the egg was
located at least 500m from the nearest active chook house. Also the egg
looks rather too "pointy" for a chook. To give an idea of size
the barcoded tag next to it is 60mm long so it is a large egg. The egg
was under a tree but I couldn't see a nest in the tree, and the lowest branch
was about 4m above the fairly hard ground.
Does anyone have any ideas (a) what species could have laid
this and (b) how it got into this position. We have a good supply of foxes,
raptors, currawongs and magpies but I cannot see why they carried it so far to
deposit the egg on the ground without eating it.
