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Geoffrey,
thanks, good photo. This year the 2 pairs/groups of D.
Moorhen at Norgrove Park also raised their 2nd broods with the help of the young
from their 1st broods. Especially one of the extended families is still quite
cohesive.
Michael Lenz
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 12:43 PM
To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] Nothing new (yawn)
On reaching for my HANZAB for an explanation of a sub-adult D
Moorhen feeding a chick, I find that Michael Lenz has once again been there
before us all. Immatures do participate in groups of these co-operative
breeders. While one study reported ?no parental behaviour in birds less
than 10 months old?, Michael contributed (in Corella 1990) a report of ?young of
first brood feeding chicks of second brood?.
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