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White Grey-crowned Babblers

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Subject: White Grey-crowned Babblers
From: Barry Davies <>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:32:32 +1000
Russell sent me a link to a site about Pied Babblers from the Kalahari which, as he pointed out, are similar to "my" leucistic birds. I followed the link

http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/docs/piedbabb.html

and found a reference to a paper, which you can download on pdf, entitled "Facultative response to a kleptoparasite by the cooperatively breeding pied babbler" which I found interesting. Very briefly it is about how Babblers respond to stealing of their food by Drongos ie kleptoparasitism. How successful Drongos are is dependent on the size of the group of Babblers. Drongos have been observed making false alarm calls to draw Babblers away form food so they can steal it. Has anyone observed similar kleptoparasitic behaviour by Drongos towards Babblers in Australia?
Regards,
Barry Davies
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