Ruth and I were at Peter Murrell Reserve (near Hobart) on Saturday and
witnessed New Holland Honeyeaters relentlessly chasing off Pardalotes
(couldn't tell if they were Spotted, Striated or 40 Spots). I've seen
Honeyeaters of various types aggressively defending their territory from
other Honeyeaters, but hadn't observed them harassing Pardalotes before.
Paul Dodd
Docklands, Melbourne
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Sent: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 4:28 PM
To: Colin Driscoll;
Subject: Flying with protection
For the Pardalote to use the BFCS as protection on a longish flight
sounds sensible. It's not just raptors they have to worry about.
Noisy Miners relentlessly harry and persecute small birds such as
Pardalotes, Silvereyes and smaller Honeyeaters. A gang of Bell-Miners
took over our backyard one season, attracted by a heavy lerp-crop on our
Red Gum, and the resident pair of Red Wattlebirds had to retreat and
take their fledgling to a neighbour's Blue Gum.
Anthea Fleming
Colin Driscoll wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Last week while working in the upper Hunter Valley I observed the
following:
>
>I was on a ridge and a Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike flew from the top of a
tree
>and headed off towards the opposite ridge about 750m away. A pardalote
>(could have been Spotted or Striated) immediately flew up and joined the
>bigger bird. The two flew together until they got to the other side and the
>little bird peeled off and down into the trees.
>
>This looked so intentional and in no way was the pardalote harrassing the
>bigger bird, they just flew at what looked like about a metre apart. I am
>guessing that the little bird was using the bigger bird as cover from any
>raptor attacks.
>
>Any similar observations or reports out there?
>
>Colin Driscoll
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