Koels are on the increase in the ACT. Fomerly occasional visitors they are
now regular.
As the native vegetation around here doesn't have too many figs, or too many
obvious fruiting trees, it presumably the urban fruit trees which sustain
them, and have allowed them to colonise. But I wonder if it is due to one sp
in particular. This is a Prunus sp which fruits very early (it has fruit
now, for example). I would imagine Koels would be looking particularly for
fruit round about now, early in season, there being more later. And this sp
of Prunus is very common in the ACT; it's probably something that did well
in the early days and was widely planted.
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John Leonard (Dr)
http://www.webone.com.au/~jleonard
PO Box 243, Woden, ACT 2606, Australia
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