[Fwd: [Birding-Aus] RE: Spangled Drongo Pruning Leaves]

[Ian Cowan <>]

   I have noted this behaviour of leaf pruning of small branches by
   Drongos several times - they tend to return to the denuded branch over
   the next several days and use it as a perch to call from.  One in my
   yard earlier this year was prepared by (I assume) the parent bird, and
   then used as a perch by a very young bird just out of the nest over
   the next couple of days - very exposed, not the more common bird
   behaviour of keeping the young out of sight after they leave the nest.
   Ian Cowan
   Clifton Beach 4879
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