canberrabirds

Grey Butcherbirds

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Subject: Grey Butcherbirds
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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:05:19 +1100 (EST)
I've had one in my area for last couple of weeks, but have never recorded
one previously. yesterday it had been joined by another, and the two were
engaged in a noisy altercation with a pied currawong.  there are also a
lot more king parrots around than usual - at times up to six in my garden.
sandra henderson

> In the last week, Ive had a young Grey Butcherbird around my Weston
> garden.
> This is only the third record in 23 years of GBS surveys.  This bird had
> caught something, had wedged it in a tree, and was tearing off chunks -
> possibly a young blackbird, judging by the noisy adult blackbirds nearby.
>
> Im aware from the CIMAG chatline, that others in Chapman and Garran have
> reported butcherbirds around their gardens for the first time or first
> time
> in many years.
> cheers
> Jenny
>
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