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Secure parking Swallows

To: calyptorhynchus <>
Subject: Secure parking Swallows
From: Isobel Crawford <>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 03:13:06 +0000
Australian Magpie Larks at National Library had perfected this technique too. 

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> On 9 Sep 2021, at 12:54 pm, calyptorhynchus via Canberrabirds 
> <> wrote:
> 
> 
> Walking along Irving Street Phillip this morning I watched two swallows swoop 
> down the ramp of a below-street car-park under one of the new apartment 
> blocks. They perched on a sign and I noticed that one was carrying a feather 
> in its beak.
> 
> Within a few seconds the automatic gates began to open to let a car exit and 
> both swallows swooped underneath and went inside.
> 
> The presence of the feather in the beak of one and the fact they were a pair 
> made me infer they had begun a nest in there and had already worked out the 
> access routine. I hope people come and go often enough for them to to be able 
> to access as often as they need to
> 
> -- 
> John Leonard
> 
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