oriole

["Kurtis Lindsay" <>]

There is an over wintering  Oriole in my local patch in East Killara.
Quite an inquisitive carachter it appears whenever something out of the 
ordinary cames along, to have a look and then fly off.
There seems to be only one present.

Recently (8/7) there was a juv or female Figbird which was calling very 
loudly in an angophora in my backyard, the Oriole came down to investigate 
and the two birds interacted then the figbird flew away when a Pied 
Currawong appeared on the scene. It was an interesting observation of an 
intereaction between to displaced birds which are also closely genetically 
related.
Have there been other observations of the two species associating with each 
other?
Kurtis Lindsay