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Hi
All,
Yes the chap
Terry refers to is Harry F. Recher, from the Aust Museum in Sydney. I don't know
if he is still there. He put together a TV documentary some years back about the
problem of the Pied Currawong, mainly in Sydney (but the issues here are
similar).
Philip
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From:
terry gourlay [
Sent: Friday, 10 April
2009 3:41 PM
To: hot line
Subject: [canberrabirds]
RE:Currawongs....
Hello
All,
Thanks for
your encouraging response Rosemary,it is nice to think that breeding reservoirs
of smaller passerines exist so close at hand....I also used to have lots of
E.Rosellas,still have undiminished numbers of Scarlets....We used have grass
Parrots in good numbers they have also gone....Rosemary how many Currawongs did
you record?...Geoffrey thanks for your post I really respect you as a Field
Ornithologis (Big Deal)....Maybe they have moved on....So on Sunday there were
three surviving Miners (Apparently) today at 12AM there was just one to be
found....Do they Really drift in Dribs and Drabs?....I think those Airborne Rats
are to blame....A chap called Wraecker(Spelling?) from N.NSW studied their
destructive habits years ago and found they had precipitated a virtual holocaust
in open nested birds...In my area,they have certainly learnt how to catch
Sparrows nesting in the eaves of Concrete tiled roofs and now this very common
bird is no more.
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