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A number of years ago a rehabilitated juvenile Koel was banded and released
in a surburban backyard in Brisbane. It was fed by a pair of adult Koels
prior to disappearing with them when they migrated north. The following
spring it returned to the same yard and hung around most of the summer
before heading north again. It returned several years in a row and had a
female in tow for the last few.
Where I now live in Brisbane I have seen adult Koels feed juveniles not
long before they migrate.
Roy Sonnenburg
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> From: Gerry Hopkins <>
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> Subject: birding-aus Juvenile Koel food question?
> Date: Saturday, 06 March, 1999 17:02
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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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