Fwd: Unusual interaction between Pied Currawong and Magpie

["David McDonald (personal)" <>]

Sorry people, this was not my observation it was sent to COG by someone not subscribed to the list. In my haste I omitted this fact from the email that was distributed.
Regards - David

On 21/11/2014 10:00 AM, Philip Veerman wrote:

Sorry I am a bit lost as to whether either observation is yours. It is regular behaviour for young and adult magpies. I can only think that these are young Currawongs either getting confused or intentionally pretending to be young magpies to obtain food.

-----Original Message-----
From: David McDonald (personal) [m("dnmcdonald.id.au","david");">]
Sent: Friday, 21 November 2014 9:25 AM
To: CanberraBirds
Cc: Howard Grace
Subject: [canberrabirds] Fwd: Unusual interaction between Pied Currawong and Magpie

Hi there,

I saw this online and wanted to share that I observed some unusual behaviour as well.

I observed a Magpie and a Currawong together in my garden this afternoon.

I turned when I saw the currawong come down and a magpie came down making it's territorial call and the currawong was skwawking back,  The magpie walked over to the currawong, but the currawong didn't retreat, it just sort of reclined backwards and the magpie came over and stood right in front of it in sort of a dominating pose, almost standing on the currawong's feet and, again, warbled it's territorial call.  The magpie then proceeded to lie down next to the currawong and they just laid there for a while together (about 2-3 minutes) not doing anything.  Eventually this interaction ended and the currawong stood up properly and so did the magpie.  The magpie proceeded to forage away from the currawong and then the currawong followed the magpie making begging ("feed me") sounds.  There was some feeding that ensued for about a minute - the magpie feeding the currawong and then both birds flew away in opposite directions.

Strange!!!

Unusual interaction between Pied Currawong and Magpie

		Unusual interaction between Pied Currawong and Magpie Early this afternoon I was walking through the carpark between Aranda Primary School and the playing fields.
		View on bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au	Preview by Yahoo

-- 
David McDonald
1004 Norton Road
Wamboin NSW 2620
Australia
Mapcode: NSW G67T.M0Q
Coords: -35° 15.0573', 149° 21.9668'
T: (02) 6238 3706
M: 0416 231 890
F: (02) 9475 4274
E: m("dnmcdonald.id.au","david");">
☀Run, don't walk, to sign the MONSTER CLIMATE PETITION at monsterclimatepetition.com.au/, and invite your friends and family to do likewise!