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Piscivorous Australian Ravens??

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Subject: Piscivorous Australian Ravens??
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Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:49:04 +1100
Hi All
We have Australian Ravens nesting in a tall E viminalis in our garden (their fourth or fifth year in the tree). We have a pond beside the house (clearly observed from the living/dining/kitchen area, around 0.5M deep and 1.2M in diameter, with a shallow edge against the house, overhanging plantings, water plants, an old terracotta pipe in the bottom and azolla and duckweed covering on average 1/4 of the surface). In early spring 4 of our 6 goldfish (mostly comets, bodies around 10-15 cm) disappeared and the remaining two have been extremely shy ever since.
The ravens have only been observed around the pond once or twice, but of course we are not always about, but my guess is that they are the culprits ....
Any thoughts?
(Some years ago I think was the first to formally record a piscivorous magpie lark in an odd ob in Canberra Bird Notessame pond, but in the shallow section, and baby fish ... )
 
cheers
 

Barbara Preston

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