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Yes
corvids are definitely known
for caching food but I thought only on the ground, (usually partly
burying it) though that may be wrong. To wedge prey in a fork of a bush is however
characteristic of both butcherbirds and currawongs
(closely related birds, curiously shrikes in the northern hemisphere do similar,
though they will impale prey on spikes). I don't know that any ravens do this.
So I would suggest this is likely from a currawong.
Or
could you
have missed a pigeon nest nearby, that it could have fallen from?
Philip
There has been a lot of raven and
currawong activity around our place in Fraser over the past few weeks, although
no obvious signs of nesting or of young. This morning I found a dead fully
feathered young bronzewing wedged by the neck in a fork of a calistemon bush
only a few centimetres above the ground. I think it is unlikely it got there by
itself and I assume it was too big to be put there by a butcherbird, so I am
thinking the job may have been done by a raven or a currawong. There were no
signs of injury, other than where ants had got to work on the neck and head. Are
corvids known for caching food?
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