Cockatoos trying to pick up monitor by tail

[Martin Butterfield <>]

Bearded Dragons certainly do climb trees if frightened, so I see no reason to doubt they'd do so if tey were hungry and food was available,

Martin Butterfield

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On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 14:13, Philip Veerman <> wrote:

I suspected that. Because I don’t know of bearded dragons climbing trees. But I am not fully certain. So I did not bother to include that thought.

 

From: David Rees [
Sent: Sunday, 20 October, 2019 10:53 PM
To: Philip Veerman;
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Cockatoos trying to pick up monitor by tail

 

Maybe , but my one was just like Kym's, on the ground. They were curious and were 'playing' with it.

 

On 20/10/2019 10:40 pm, Philip Veerman wrote:

It is known in the situation of them trying to stop a goanna climbing up to a nest. For a bearded dragon, presumably it is mistaken identity (?)

 

From: David Rees
Sent: Sunday, 20 October, 2019 10:24 PM
To: kym bradley;
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Cockatoos trying to pick up monitor by tail

 

Kym

 

I've seen cockies do something similar with Bearded dragons, crests up and all...   They are great images,  because they capture something special, not simply just another perfect bird on a twig with bokeh done in the 'politically correct' way. 

 

David

 

 

On 20/10/2019 7:37 pm, kym bradley wrote:

Three cockatoos  tried to pick up the monitor by the tail numerous times the monitor would rare back   each time they grabbed it

 

NOT quality images I was too far away

 

Funny they did not do it with the red belly x 2

 

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