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The young Koel I had reported earlier from near the
Ainslie shops has grown into a full-sized bird when I saw it last time on Monday
(2 Feb), dwarfing its foster parents. Although I failed to locate it today , I
heard at about 400m further along the by now familiar begging calls of a young
Koel. However, it was a new, much smaller one, still about Red Wattlebird size
and the tail about half the length of an adult bird. This is now reported Koel
baby No. 4 (3 in Ainslie, 1 in Watson) for this season! There are also
still at various places young Red Wattlebirds about, not yet fully grown,
indicating that the Red Wattlebird had a good, prolonged breeding season
although not all pairs were as lucky as some.
Michael Lenz
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