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RE: Zygodactyls

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Subject: RE: Zygodactyls
From: "John Layton" <>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 18:16:41 +1000

 

 

From: John Layton [
Sent: Monday, 6 September 2010 2:27 PM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: Zygodactyls

 

Recent discussion about zygodactyls included the comment ( I think) that cuckoos are zygodactyls which surprised me until I recalled that a couple of autumns ago we had close-up views of a pair of Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoos gleaning small black caterpillars from casaurina foliage near Uriarra Crossing. Their movements, like those of their prey, were slow but nonetheless acrobatic and involved much inversion.

 

John Layton

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