One of the interesting bird tit bits is
about the California condor and their re release into the wild
Their wing spread was so large that when
they perched on power poles and took of they often touched two wires together with
fatal results
A result of this was as they were raised
in captivity they were conditioned not to perch on power poles and were not
released until this was a habit for them
Last time I was there had been around six
or so released and mostly in the Big Sur area
I am not sure if they were released to the
tune of ‘Play Mist for Me’ or not
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From:
John Layton [
Sent: Friday, 2 November 2007 8:54
PM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: [canberrabirds] Re: The
demise of Harry
Coincident with the demise of Harry the peacock, I commenced
reading the autobiography of Hunter S. Thompson. The multi-faceted HST
kept pet peafowl (I never knew that) and explains the birds ranged widely by
day, returning home at night.
"Peacocks don't move around much at night," according to
Thompson. "They like a high place to roost, and will usually find one
before sundown." Anyhow, one of his peafowl missed curfew one evening and
perched on a power pole. "It stepped on a power line and caused a short
circuit that burned him to a cinder blew out my electrics. The power returned
but the bird did not. It was fried like a ball of bacon. We couldn't even eat
it."
This afternoon, as I drove back from Wagga, while hauling up the range
south of Cootamundra, I saw two Wedge-tailed Eagles feasting on a road-killed
roo. Ten kilometres later, I saw another Wedge-tailed Eagle stripping morsels
of road-squished fox from the bitumen.
RIP Hunter S. Thompson, who blew his brains out a few months ago.
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