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The
Tyson St Ainslie Koel has gone quiet, only a few soft morning calls in the last
few weeks, and no calling in past 5 days. Is this the same for the other
Ainslie/Braddon Koel?
Dr Coral Dow
Senior Researcher, Social Policy Section
Research Branch
Parliamentary Library,
Department of Parliamentary Services
Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600
Ph: 02 6277 2709
Fax: 02 6277
2498
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Just now, the very local koel completed a hour-long calling
stint in its favourite pin oak. During this it was kept on the hop
through the foliage by a pair of currawongs, being finally evicted by one of
them. It seems to me that the exceptionally reclusive habits of koels
around Canberra (on which Shaun B for example has commented) might be due to
the number of currawongs and other harassers. It suits them to expose
themselves as little as possible while calling. Happens elsewhere of
course but I wonder whether this is not relative, directly related to the
harasser factor.
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