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I am living in Mosman Park, a suburb of Perth on
the Lower Swan River towards Fremantle, and at about 0700hrs on January 19th I
observed a flock of about 120 Red Wattlebirds congregated in two Lemon-scented
Gums (not flowering) in my back yard. They remained there for some ten minutes
with a few arrivals and departures, and they then quite quickly dispersed in
twos, threes and half-dozens. Red Wattlebird is probably the most numerous
specie in this neighbourhood but I have never seen them in a huge group like
this.
Is this behaviour known in the literature or
does anyone have an explanation for what looked like a breakfast get-together of
every Red Wattlebird within a kilometer or two from here?
Roger McGovern
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