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This morning while having breakfast, I heard a
Figbird calling. I went outside in a hurry and saw the bird fly from a group of
Eucalypts and in some exotic tree, beside my neighbours backyard. The bird
called for a few minutes more than took off.
This is as far west I have seen a Figbird in
metropolitan Sydney, and is a first for my street list (now standing at 88
species) and probably for Seven Hills and Blacktown shire. The only fig tree in
the vicinity, is a very small one, not more than a metre tall in a park opposite
our place, but has never had fruit. I don't know of any fruiting trees in the
area at the moment, but there are some large fig trees a km away in Seven Hills.
I'd say they are looking for new territory like the birds I saw at Guildford
(about 10 km km away) last August.
Has anybody else in western Sydney been seeing
any Figbirds?
Edwin
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