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Re: Query re Song Sparrow

Subject: Re: Query re Song Sparrow
From: "M, J, & V Phinney" badgreenbird
Date: Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:05 am ((PDT))
Now THAT is interesting. Songbirds in Australia don't nest on the ground?!
It seems so odd to me - there are dozens of local songbird species that are
ground nesters, including several that forage and sing from very high in the
forest canopy.

Mark Phinney


on 9/25/08 4:32 AM, Syd Curtis at  wrote:

Thanks Lou,

Somehow, I didn't associate songbirds with nesting on the ground.
:-(   But I should have done so.  Now you remind me, I remember, many years
ago, finding (in New Zealand) the nest of the (introduced) Skylark in/under
a tuft of grass.
<snip>


Cheers

Syd








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