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a good start to 2009

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Subject: a good start to 2009
From: "Barbara Allan" <>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 16:55:37 +1100

While walking the dog this morning I was more than surprised to see a female koel on the ground no more than two metres from me in the little park at the western end of Hannaford Street (Page). At first I wondered if she was injured but after a couple of minutes she flew off strongly to a liquidamber on the other side of the park. Silent the whole time. While the local Page/Scullin male koel (he of the stutter) wasn’t calling at the time, he has been, on and off, since. Interestingly, the female was of the pale form shown in HANZAB, while all other female koels I’ve seen have been the dark form. Any comments on how usual it is to see koels on the ground (I never have before). Or the ratio of pale to dark females? b

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