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Escargot d'amour

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Subject: Escargot d'amour
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:05:33 +1100

I am still scratching my head over one of your odder obs.  This morning at about 715 I was roused (yet again) by the excited ‘wuh-huh-huh-huh’ of a female koel.  When I made it into the street a few minutes later I saw a female koel fly out of some shrubbery and off down the hill towards lower Griffith.  A male made a half-hearted pursuit and then perched in its customary cedar, holding something in its bill and making disconsolate soft ‘kar’ sounds.  I only got  a couple of snaps before my battery expired.  On examining the photographic record, such it is, I find the koel was carrying a LIVE SNAIL.  As I left after the battery failure I can’t tell you what happened next.  I wonder (as we say) whether such behaviour has been reported before.  I can add the information that there are a lot of snails around at the moment.

 

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