birding-aus Vampire Finches

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Date:	Wed, 13 Oct 1999 21:42:31 +1000

That programme about Galapagos finches on  ABC TV just now was
amazing !

A wonderful demonstration of how extreme climate changes can
affect species and their survival and the consequent potential
effects in terms of evolution.

But even more the impact of learned behaviour in accelerating
evolutionary change. In a few years the finches had apparently
learnt both how to smash booby eggs and to drink booby blood !

In the last few days we had our first records of scaly-breasted
lorikeets attempting to nest in Canary Island palms.....

Michael Norris
Hampton, Vic.

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