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Feral news - Song Thrushes have started singing

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Subject: Feral news - Song Thrushes have started singing
From: Lawrie Conole <>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:26:40 +1000
Hi birders

Some feral news from one of the (so far) least offensive Melbourne feral birds.

Yesterday as I walked to work I heard the first few snatches of song from one of my neighbourhood Song Thrushes. This morning the same bird (I presume - singing from the same vantage point high up in a plane tree) was in more-or-less full voice. I can't recall noting the first Song Thrush singing in previous years, but it strikes me as a typical mid-late winter sound in many parts of Melbourne.

I did say above that it was at the moment apparently a fairly contained population of this feral bird in urban greater Melbourne - Geelong. I think they are spreading into rural and forested landscapes to the east (South Gippsland) and west (Otway Ranges) though - a bird to watch ....

L.

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