My wife informed me tonight of a bird experience she had today where a white
plumed honeyeater "bashed" a long skinny insect of some kind for a prolonged
period before eating it. The white plumed did htis in the manner of a
kingfisher or a beeeater. I have read that kingfishers do this to break the
bones of the animal to aid getting it down adn that beeeaters do it to remove
the sting. Perhaps these accounts are false given this honeyeaters behaviour
and it is just about eating dead prey?
I have never seen a honeyeater engage in this behaviour before.
by the way the white plumes here in Alice Springs are especially agressive as
they scare away lone white rumped miners(the white rumped miners only ever turn
up singly)
GAry
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