The housing dilemma - build, or borrow/rent

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Yes all true enough. It appears to me though that these big chough nests that Tawny Frogmouths sometimes use are nowhere near as well hidden as their normal little stick nest. The frogmouths are not as well equipped to handle harassment from other birds like miners and butcherbirds, as are a whole family of choughs. But they must succeed sometimes. There is a little word use correction on this though, in that the nest doesn't hold fledglings. They are nestlings when in the nest and called fledglings after they have left the nest. So a nest (normally) does not hold fledglings.

 

Philip

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Eckermann [
Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2011 8:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] The housing dilemma - build, or borrow/rent

At 05:04 PM 11/10/2011,
Lindell wrote:
> Caught this Red Wattlebird
>   house-sitting a mudnest at Mulligan's Flat - weekend before
> last.

Maybe mud-nests are a considered a great option by
some of these birds. The Morcombe Guide that includes typical nest pictures
shows Tawny Frogmouths as having a loose nest made of sticks, but I guess
they're opportunists. In both pictures, the nest looks OK for eggs, but far too
small to accommodate a growing family of fledglings.

Regards ... Robin