Hi Michael and others,
The Bunya Mountains are hardly an urban situation. The location Lee
describes is either within the boundaries of the Bunya Mountains National
Park, or right on the edge, depending on exactly where he set his blue
objects down. Either way, perhaps not the most appropriate behaviour in a
National Park environment.
Personally, all the best bowerbird bowers I've seen have had all natural
objects around them. I have often wondered if we are changing the breeding
ecology of Satin Bowerbirds with the overabundance of blue objects, and with
feeding. I've definitely read that there is a much higher than "normal"
density of bowers around O'reillys and Binna Burra in Lamington National
Park. It would be an interesting if difficult area to conduct a study into.
Regards,
Chris
Brisbane, QLD
/an additional source of littering the forest.
/In urban situations there tends to be a lot of litter around which
isn't pleasant to the human eye but mostly causes no real problems for
wildlife./
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