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Gerry Hopkins wrote:
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> Hi birders,
> Called on to identify the noisy big baby being fed by a pair of red
> wattlebirds by my
> neighbours. Explained that it was a juvenile koel, that it's parents
> migrate from N.G. to
> eastern Aus. each summer and eats fruit such as the mulberries next
> door. Being a cuckoo
> uses foster parents to raise thier young. Red wattlebirds (honeyaters)
> were feeding nectar
> and insects to young koel.
> Question:- How does the young bird learn to eat fruit and how does
> it manage to travel
> to N.G.?
> Has anyone seen koels collect their young before
> returning to N.G.?
>
> Please can anyone answer these questions as my many books don't help
> at all.
> Thanks,
> Lauris.
>
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> Gerry Hopkins MMR
> Franklin, Somerset & Kennebec Railroad
> http://www.flex.com.au
> Contest Chairman, NMRA Australasian Region
> http://www.nmra.org.au
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Red Wattlebirds ate my plums,freestone and clingstone peaches and
apricots and fed their young on them too.
Anthea Fleming in Melbourne
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