No I haven’t had Magpie-larks nesting in dead native trees but I have had Tawny
Frogmouths roosting in a leafless poplar for weeks before it got leaves.
Cheers
Mike Tarburton.
> On 10 Sep 2020, at 9:08 am, calyptorhynchus <> wrote:
>
> Here in suburban Canberra we have Magpie Larks nesting in a deciduous tree in
> our backyard.
>
> The nest is nearing completion, but at the moment the tree has not yet put
> out leaves (probably will have done so in a couple of weeks).
>
> In previous years they (or other ML pairs) have nested in tall Eucalypts
> nearby, this is the first year they have nested here.
>
> My question is, why built in a tree that is as yet a bare tree. Surely they
> can't know it's going to leaf in a few weeks and so the shade and protection
> might be better than a native tree; at the moment there is no shade and no
> protection. Magpies often nest in deciduous trees, but Magpies are more
> formidable than MLs and can fight off more predators. Has anyone ever seen
> MLs nesting a dead native tree?
>
> --
> John Leonard
> Canberra
>
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