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Noisy miners and egrets and the like (part 2)

To: "Gemfyre" <>, "Chris Sanderson" <>
Subject: Noisy miners and egrets and the like (part 2)
From: "Ricki Coughlan" <>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:48:36 +1100
Hi Belinda
 
Given the tight energy budgets of these birds (you might recall Danny Rogers' excellent talk on this at the Shorebird Disturbance Monitoring Workshop in the mudlab), it may well be that the birds were practicing energy conservation. It just appeared that they were being lazy.
 
Ricki 
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