Con wrote: "From memory....." Yes. This was the subject of the main talk to
COG's July 2019 meeting. This extract from the July Gang-gang.
The main presentation will be by Jessica
McLachlan, who has recently completed
her PhD work at the Research School of
Biology at the ANU, on "Communicating
about danger: alarm calls and
information use in the New Holland
Honeyeater".
I thought the talk was interesting of course. The main aspects were fine. One
of the lesser details left me quite confused. I thought I understood it was
stated as important or to some extent statistically significant to the
honeyeaters as to whether the playing of the alarm call of the Superb
Fairy-wren or Crimson Rosella came first. That strikes me as a very artificial
investigation and I wondered at its usefulness. Did others wonder the same
thing? I might have misunderstood what was being stated.
As for banded birds, if you go looking at the small birds at ANBG, I would
suggest that many or most are banded. There have been many studies done there
over many years.
Philip
-----Original Message-----
From: Con Boekel
Sent: Thursday, 5 September, 2019 7:46 AM
To:
Subject: New Holland Honeyeater action (photos) @ ANBG
From memory, I believe that some NHH in the Gardens were colour-banded
for a study having to do with species ability to use effectively the
alarm calls of other species. This included, I vaguely recall, the
ability to interpret alarm calls to the level of the kind of predator
the birds were calling about. Thus, for example, could a Superb
Fairywren work out whether a NHH was calling about a Brown Goshawk or a
Brown Snake and tailor evasive behaviour accordingly?
regards
Con
On 9/4/2019 11:41 PM, Kevin and Gwenyth Bray wrote:
> Hi
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but I note in one of these pix that the NEH had
> been banded.
>
> Do any of you know of, or are involved in, such banding? And, if so,
> with what result in terms of knowledge of NEH behaviour/locations?
>
> Kevin Bray
>
> -----Original Message----- From: David Rees
> Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 6:31 PM
> To: COG list
> Subject: [canberrabirds] New Holland Honeyeater action (photos) @ ANBG
>
> Not sitting on twigs..... truely manic things.
>
> https://flic.kr/s/aHsmGGKoPx
>
> David
>
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