Maybe the Pardalote and BFCS were just having a positive avian multicultural
experience.
Rob
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Paul Dodd <> wrote:
> 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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> To: Colin Driscoll;
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] 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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