The occasional Bar-shouldered Dove to visit the feeding site on our
verandah is aggressive to virtually anything else that gets in the way
including Yellow Oriole.
They will raise a wing to scare other doves off, but adopt another tactic
with smaller birds. They will actually pick Double-barred Finches up by
the back feathers and chuck them bodily off the feeding platform.
However Chestnut-breasted Mannikins have a way around this. They land en
masse on the feeding platform, and often on top of the dove which usually
retreats.
Occasionally a Helmeted Friarbird will commandeer the platform and then
no one else gets a look in. But in the last few days another, bigger
bird has turned up. It will be interesting to see what strategies other
birds adopt when confronted wit
an Orange-footed Scrubfowl.
Lastly we used to have a one-winged Brown Falcon and the only creature
that ever stole his food was our dog. But then the falcon used to steal
hers as well.
Denise Goodfellow
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