This afternoon (Wed) there was one spoonbill sleeping in the tree.
Then another flew in carrying a long and awkward stick. It handed
the stick to the now-awake bird, there was a bit of shilly-shally as they
both had hold of it, then the stick dropped into the water.
Immediately the two birds started what might have been courting tai-chi -
crests raised, waving of neck and head, mouth open yawn-like but held for
more than a few seconds and a bit of beak-beak interaction. Then
this stopped and they resumed just sitting there and doing nothing in
particular. My interpretation was that stick carrying was
related to courting and not nest building.
Julian
At 05:07 PM 29/10/2008, martin butterfield wrote:
As Anthony has replied
positively about the Odd Ob I will try to keep an eye on the site until
the deadline for CBN. However that propbably means only another 3
or 4 visits. Could I ask that any other observers who notice any
development of the nest pass the message on to me for inclusion in the
article. I'd expect to attribute observations (unless asked not to
do so).
Paul Fennell: Are there any breeeding records for Royal Spoonbill
in the COG General Record?
Martin
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:40 PM, martin butterfield
<>
wrote:
- Thanks to all for the responses. I will put in an incidental
"nest building" record. Looking at the last ABR, Steve
Wilson's book, and the 2nd Atlas it seems that breeding for the species
is not usual for the area.
- Anthony: is this worth an Odd Ob summarising the comments for the
benefit of those not on this chatline.
- Martin
- On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Alastair Smith
<
> wrote:
- Martin et al,
- Geoff Duggan and I saw a spoonbill carrying a branch to the tree in
the middle of the pond on Sunday afternoon.
- Cheers
- Alastair
-
- From: martin butterfield
- Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2008 6:27 PM
- To: COG List
- Subject: [canberrabirds] Spoonbills at Kelly's
-
- This afternoon two Royal Spoonbills were perched in the tree on the
small island in front of Cygnus hide. They appeared to be quite
friendly - for a while I thought a CO record was in the offing.
However the bird on the right in the attached image appeared to be on a
defoliation mission WRT the tree, stacking its booty around its
feet. I got the distinct impression it was building a nest but
couldn't get a good enough view to confirm this. Other observers
might like to keep an eye on this.
- Martin
*******************************************************************************************************
This is the email announcement and discussion list of the Canberra Ornithologists Group.
List-Post: <>
List-Help: <>
List-Unsubscribe: <>
List-Subscribe: <>
List archive:
List manager: David McDonald, email <>
|
