In my message this morning, I said:
'The ensuing nest was also in a stringybark, and during the day there
were occasional quiet oom-oom contact calls from the male sitting not
far away.'
From Gisela Kaplan's recent book, I now discover that in the two
pairs that she observed: 'the male consistently brooded during the
daytime and the shift change to the female occurred at late dusk.'
There are differences of opinion about which bird does the daytime
shift. I recorded 'male' based on size, but it was a
conjecture. Both birds tended to hold their faeces until they were
at least 5 -10m away from the nest, as they do from their roosting
sites. Just as well, as the faeces are extremely potent. TFs have
been described as 'the skunks of the air'. Fascinating birds!
Muriel
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