We saw a Kookaburra at road-kill (can't quite remember where). Is this
unusual?
-----Original Message-----
From: Con Boekel
Sent: Thursday, 3 July 2008 4:07 PM
Cc:
Subject: Brown Falcon on roadkill - Coppins Xing Road
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It takes all sorts - at Victoria River Downs Station in the Northern
Territory, back in the nineteen seventies I saw a couple of cows chewing
away at the remains of a well-cured road-killed cow.
Con
Bron King wrote:
> Hello all
>
> Our most memorable sighting of birds on a roadkill was in July 2006 a
> few kilometres south of Molong, NSW. We saw two white-faced herons
> feeding on a grey kangaroo carcass within a metre of the bitumen.
> They both held their position as we drove by.
>
> We didn't stop to check exactly what they were eating.
>
> While we've never observed it ourselves, we understand that pacific
> herons eat carrion. But we haven't heard of white-faced herons doing
> so. Of course, they may well have been rummaging through the carcass
> for insect larvae or pupae.
>
> Bron
>
> At 08:50 AM 3/07/2008, McLaughlin, Duncan MR wrote:
>> UNCLASSIFIED
>>
>> HI Beth
>>
>> I have seen Brown Falcons feeding off (already) dead sheep on several
>> occasions. Both singly and as a pair.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dunc
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Beth Mantle
>> Sent: Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:10
>> To: canberra birds
>> Subject: [canberrabirds] Brown Falcon on roadkill - Coppins Xing Road
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> This afternoon I observed a Brown Falcon (a local, I suspect, as I see
>> one quite regularly on this drive) feeding off a road-killed kangaroo on
>> Coppins Crossing Road, near the junction with Uriarra Road. I'm not
>> sure that I have seen a Brown Falcon scavenging like this before; has
>> anyone else?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Beth.
>>
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