Two Robins - Mulligan's

[Philip Veerman <>]

Don’t know about if being common behaviour but connections of these 2 species have been observed before. Including some evidence of vocal mimicry between them.

 

Philip

 

From: Julie Clark [
Sent: Wednesday, 28 September, 2016 10:48 PM
To: COG Chatline
Subject: [canberrabirds] Two Robins - Mulligan's

 

Hi Everyone,

 

Jill and I (separately) visited Mulligan's Flat today and had the same interesting sighting.

 

A female scarlet robin was in the company of  a red-capped robin (juvenile?). They appeared to be flying around together and the scarlet seemed to be behaving like a parent to the other.

 

Is it common behaviour for different species of robin to associate with one another? I haven't seen  examples of this before but my bird knowledge/experience is pretty limited.

 

Maybe it was just a coincidence, but it is interesting that Jill and I saw the same two birds and made similar observations of their behaviour.

 

Any thoughts/comments/information would be appreciated.

 

Attached is a photo of the two birds perched together.

 

Better photos of the two individual birds can been seen:

 

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Cheers

Julie

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Julie Clark