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Torrens obs

To: "Stephen & Frances Brand" <>
Subject: Torrens obs
From: "Michael & Janette Lenz" <>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:33:11 +1100
Stephen,
 
here a more direct response to your questions:
 
Red Wattlebird: incubation period 16 to 21 days; nestling period: ca. 16 days, fledglings are fed  for 2-3 weeks after having left the nest (info. from HANZAB).
 
At least in suburban Canberra 2 broods are very common (some times overlapping, i.e. the 2nd brood is started before the young of the first brood are independent), in good years also 3 broods possible (from our local pair  the young of the 2nd brood has just fledged, and it is only early November).
 
Yellow-rumped Thornbill: this is a species that often breeds cooperatively system, i.e. a pair together with helper(s) raise the brood. So to see more than 2 birds building a nest is quite common.
 
Michael Lenz
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