Hi Cas and all
>From my observations, Grey Butcherbirds have certainly increased in SE
Queensland over the past 30 years. I consider that this is because of
widespread clearing, mainly for housing development. Their preferred
habitat here ranges from open grassy areas with some tree cover such as
parks, school grounds, and backyards to open woodland where there is short
grass understory. Clearing of more densely wooded areas has made much more
habitat available.
We have a Grey Butcherbird family at the back of our place at Nundah close
to the centre of Brisbane. I been observing some interesting behaviour
recently. I have seen the young birds 'playing' a number of times. The
other day they were wrestling and lying on their backs tossing a pecan nut
(still with outer case) around with their feet. There was a thread on
birding-aus a while back about birds playing.
As I write this there are two Grey Butcherbirds duetting about two metres
outside my office window.
Cheers
Roy Sonnenburg
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