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Mansions in the mallee

To: Tony Lawson <>
Subject: Mansions in the mallee
From: Nick Payne <>
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:16:12 +1000
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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