I forwarded this photo of the magpie goose to a friend of mine who once spent a year in Antarctica working with the Adelie penguins. This was her response:
“It has picked up a lot of adelie penguin traits. Rock relocation. Hard work for just a worm or 2 who would have heard big bird coming!!”
I now wonder how many other species of birds do this kind of thing.
Margaret Leggoe
From: Margaret Leggoe [
Sent: Thursday, 10 February 2011 1:46 PM
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Subject: Magpie goose behaviour
Sometimes the rocks are a bit big, but he has a jolly go try, just the same.
