I'd just like to thank everyone who gave me tips on places to bird in
Cairns, I had a very sucessful trip. Highlights for me were golden
bowerbird, Victoria's riflebird, noisy pitta, great-billed heron,fig
parrot, lovely fairy wren, nesting sooty terns and noddys on Michalmas
Cay, and a host of other species. non-bird
highlights were the Lumholtz' tree-kangaroo, spectacled flying foxes with
babies in tow, Ulysses butterflies and various other birdwings (I still
havn't gotten that butterfly book yet).
I have a fairly long trip report which I sent to my parents which I can
send to anyone who is interested.
Now I just need to plan that end of school birding trip...
I also have a question for you...in the states, at least twoof our local
gull species( herring gull and ring-billed gull) are adept at cracking
hard-shelled molluscs (usually clams) by carrying them up into the air for
some distance and dropping them on hard surfaces like rocks, roads,
rooftops, etc. My question is, do silver gulls have this behavior? Do they
eat foods that would require some effort to open? What about Pacific or Kelp
gulls?
just curious,
Katie Bertsche
Katie Bertsche .........If you're too busy to go birding, you're too busy.
http://www.bowdoin.edu/~kbertsch
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