|
Between about 2.00am and 2.20 on Sunday morning I
heard two boobooks dueting or duelling. They sounded as though they were in the
southern section of the Federal Gold Course near Birdwood Street in
Hughes.
I remember a talk that Jerry Olsen gave to COG a
few years ago where he described the vocal interactions of male boobooks at
the edges of their territories on Black Mountain. At that time I think he said
that the female boobooks lived on Red Hill but that the males occupied
territories in Aranda and Black Mountain.
Does anyone know if there has been a change to this
pattern since the building of the Gungahlin Drive Extension? I understand that
boobooks bred successfully on Farrer Ridge a couple of years
ago.
Thanks
Rosemary Bell
| 