Red-backed Kingfisher(RBK)

["Geoffrey Dabb" <>]

Possibly the attack on the pardalote nest was attempted predation.  HANZAB does not list pardalotes’ eggs or young as food items, but it does list ‘Fairy Martin eggs and young’  -  attack ‘neck of nest with bill until it was broken away and eggs or nestling accessible’.  Indeed the abundance of FM nests in area, some ‘open’ ie without a neck must surely have offered at least a prospective food item.

 

From: roger curnow [
Sent: Saturday, 1 December 2007 8:45 AM
To: COG
Subject: [canberrabirds] Red-backed Kingfisher(RBK)

 

 

The hole top right is one that i have seen both  Striated Pardelotes and RBKs enter.
Indeed both did several times in the next 10 minutes.

 

Here is the an RBK doing it.

 

So maybe those are turtles eggs.

But if they are the RBKs were very interested in them. This was the situation for much of the half hour i watched.

 

        roger

 

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