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Re: POTENTIAL SPAM Re: [Birding-Aus] Bowerbird behaviour - Bunya Mountai

To: Chris Sanderson <>
Subject: Re: POTENTIAL SPAM Re: [Birding-Aus] Bowerbird behaviour - Bunya Mountains QLD
From: Michael Todd <>
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:04:46 +1000
Hello Chris,

If you read Lee's email he mentions that they were watching bowerbirds around a housing estate. It sounds like suburbia.

Also, I think you are stretching it a bit if you say that an increased availability of blue objects is causing a surge in bowerbird bower development! And even if it is- does it matter? The natural ecology of many areas in suburbia is way out of whack already- trying to maintain some sort of artificial approximation of what used to be natural is impossible. Let the bowerbirds enjoy their new and brighter bowers! In my opinion, it is great that the Satin Bowerbird is surviving so well in suburbia. Let's just enjoy their presence and crazy behaviour.

Its a really minor conservation concern- there's a lot worse things going on out there that are worth worrying about.

Cheers

Mick

Michael Todd Wildlifing Images & Sounds of Nature
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Chris Sanderson wrote:
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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