I’ve wondered (without any evidence) whether they might have been regarded
as a sacred species by aboriginal tribes. They would have to have been sitting
ducks to clubs or thrown weapons otherwise. Perhaps the flesh tastes crook,
particularly after eating saw-fly larvae.
Bruce.
From:
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 11:14 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] gang gangs
I
think Gang-Gangs are tame because they're not afraid. They haven't experienced
humans being dangerous to them and so they aren't particularly bothered. I
wouldn't rate anyone's chances of catching one, though, I reckon they'd move
pretty quickly if you got any closer, and if you wanted to catch them I think
thick gauntlets would be in order, I heard them described as having 'beaks like
boltcutters'; I think they would bite you to the bone.
On the theme of
Cockatoos I saw some SC Cockatoos feeding on a verge and little on to the road
(on acorns), as I passed on my bike a car deliberately swerved at them and
honked, so even those that were in the gutter had to fly (it was also a little
too near me for my liking, I was about to pull out and cycle around the
SCCs).
I stopped and apologised on behalf of humanity to the
cockies.
John Leonard
On , Elizabeth Compston
<> wrote:
> Gang gangs are still
coming to our feeder and liquidambar. Galahs hassled them this morning and
drove them from the feeder;but they came back, Adult male feeding young
male.
>
>
>
> Wy are gang gangs naturally tame? ie
not tamed by being fed by humans, or being more used to humans. You can go to
within a metre of them and they just look at you. So they can easily be
caught.
>
>
>
> Sadly, I don't expect that these
birds will stay around here till June 5th, for the survey,between 11am and
noon
>
>
>
> Where else are gang gangs staying
around?
>
>
>
> What time did you bring your friends
around on Tuesday, Geoffrey? The gang gangs were around for most of the
day. You must have had a very small window of time.
>
>
>
> The gang gang must stay on the ACT logo.
>
>
>
> Elizabeth
>
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