Tony Lawson wrote:
Out in the mallee country a little Aussie bird is doing the
impossible. It's shifting literally tonnes and tonnes of dirt, all
in the name of making babies.
This reminds me of walking through the rainforest up near Cow Bay in
North Qld about 25 years ago. It wasn't until we were retracing our
steps and saw several Orange-footed Scrubfowl scratching around on a
large mound that we realized that the mound, which was so large that we
had previously taken it for part of the landscape, was their nesting
mound. It was too high for me to see over - probably about two and a
half metres high and ten metres across. Not bad for a bird about the
size of a domestic chook, even if they do nest communally...
Nick
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