Headless pigeons

["Barbara Preston" <>]

Over the years we have had quite a number of headless recently-fledged crested pigeons in our back yard (and some other headless or otherwise partial small/young bird carcasses). The currawong nest is usually in one of the eucalypts above. My assumption has been that the currawong's usual action of wedging the neck a young/small bird in a small branch fork and stripping the carcass has been partially thwarted by the dead bird's weak neck and/or too much pulling power exerted by the currawong in the ripping of the carcass. . . . All part of the 'currawong food manufacture and provision' industry run by the local crested pigeon adults. 

cheers

Barbara

 

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