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Grey Butcherbird

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Subject: Grey Butcherbird
From: Brian Fleming <>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:22:46 +1000
 wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> My workmate and i spotted, whilst driving alongside the Royal
> Melbourne
> Golf Course, a smallish Grey Butcherbird. We had to pull over to sight
> it properly, as we both had not seen one that we could recollect in
> urban Melbourne. Are they fairly common in certain areas of
> Melbourne?,
> as i do not see them for example- in Heidelberg where i reside.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark Kliene.
> 
Hullo Mark,
I frequently hear and quite often see Grey Butcherbirds near home in
Ivanhoe. This spring and summer, a Grey Butcherbird reared at least one
young one near my mother's home in Camberwell. We wonder if it was
responsible for the disappearance of all nestling Spotted Doves in her
garden.
  Anthea Fleming in Ivanhoe (Vic)

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