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whilst playing bowls at Canberra North BC with a
naturalist friend at Turner yesterday afternoon we clearly heard the loud calls
of about half of the normal routine of a kookaburra. My first impressions
were that as it was coming from a known habitat of bower birds could that
bird be responsible. Remembering our recent interesting COG talk
about the mimicry of brown thornbills I checked with my new Pizzey field guide
to discover that there is no mention of mimicry habits. Similarly there is no
reference to this habit by bower birds but somewhere in the back of my mind I
can recall of someone mentioning that this could be the case. Perhaps some
learned colleague could expand on this subject, on the chatline of course, for
general information. Good birding Terry B.
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