Grey Butcherbirds [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[martin butterfield <>]

The Grey Butcherbirds are being very vocal around Carwoola at present.  I don't know why this is - perhaps they're complaining about the extreme dryness of the area.

While we usually have a large number of Noisy Miners in the upper (about 40m higher altitude) parts of our property they have only been itinerants in my GBS site: typically, flying into a tree; staying there making a ruckus for a few minutes; and then moving on.  However when they appear it is often in a flock of 20+ birds (which is bigger than the groups usually seen up top.

Martin

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Perkins, Harvey <> wrote:

Well what do you know - this morning I had TWO Grey butcherbirds at my place in Kambah. At least one was an adult, but the other I only heard. They were very active and vocal. As were the Noisy Friarbirds!

 

I've probably recorded Grey Butchers about half a dozen times previously around home, over about half a dozen years.

 

Another unfortunate arrival to my GBS area is a small group of Noisy Miners. I've been GBSing at my current place since 1994 and had had a couple of records of itinerant Noisy Miners, but since 26 January this year there has been a group of at least three (maybe more) that move around the area, and being characteristically noisy!

 

Harvey

Harvey Perkins
CRC Strategy and Communication Section
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Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research

 

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