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Re: birding-aus Pardalote nesting behaviour

To: Dean Portelli <>
Subject: Re: birding-aus Pardalote nesting behaviour
From: Atriplex Services <>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 08:16:13 +0930
> What I beleive is the primary reason is so the bird does
> not draw attention to the nest site, for if flying straight to it numerous
> times an hour would advertise the nest hole to predators thereby increasing
> the risk of its destruction.
>

To add to the above:
When I was doing lots of Nest records for the RAOU scheme (yes, it was
some years ago!) I noticed this behaviour in with maggies,  among other
spp. It certainly works well in making it difficult for a human to find
the nest, when the parents fly from and through several trees in a
circuitous route to it!
Anne
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