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Currawongs have arrived - Higgins

To: 'John Layton' <>, 'Canberra birds' <>
Subject: Currawongs have arrived - Higgins
From: Philip Veerman <>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 04:45:05 +0000

Yes I have always wondered how the platypus and echidna (plus of course all the extinct closely related ancestral earlier species going back millions of years) managed to uniquely arrive in Australia since disembarking from Mr. Noah’s fantastic livestock transport………… I’m joking…..

 

From: John Layton [
Sent: Saturday, 18 July, 2020 12:25 PM
To: Canberra birds
Subject: Re: [Canberrabirds] Currawongs have arrived - Higgins

 

I suspect currawongs have been around our place since disembarking from Mr. Noah’s fantastic livestock transport. When I kept a birdbath currawongs regurgitated food pellets in the water transforming it into a repugnant reddish brown soup that any self respecting bird wouldn’t poke a toe in. At least I believe currawongs were the culprits. I’ve often wondered why a bird bath would act as an emetic.

Together with drought currawongs assist in keeping the local Common Blackbird population in check. So on that point they’re probably not such a bad old home-grown Aussie bird to have around.

 

John Layton

Holt.

 

For months I’ve had only one Currawong in my GBS. Arrived home on Thursday to find 15 in and around my yard and birdbath. Yesterday 22 and today 27. The Magpies are already chasing them away from the nest they have started building.

 

Alison

 

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