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| To: | Julian Teh <> |
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| Subject: | Kama-Kazi thornbills? |
| From: | martin butterfield <> |
| Date: | Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:55:48 +1100 |
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Julian Is it possible this is something to do with limited binocular vision - see http://www.earthlife.net/birds/vision.html? When I was a youth in the UK this effect was given as the reason that hares would run into fenceposts: they were effectively blind directly in front of themselves. Martin On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Julian Teh <> wrote: I had three yellow rumped thornbills fly straight at me (I was on my bike) and would almost certainly have hit me had I not swerved to miss them. |
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