I think the open and well-lit areas also have a good supply of insects
for them to eat.
On 17/04/2008, at 7:15 PM, Andrew Stafford wrote:
This thread has arisen in various forms on several occasions but
there are a
lot of new contributors on the list. Bush Stone-curlews are common in
Brisbane including in and around the city heart - I've seen them
recently in
the park opposite gate 2 at The Gabba cricket ground; on Countess St
above
Roma St Parklands (these would be Laurie's birds I presume); in New
Farm
Park and even roosting below the window of an entirely concreted
industrial
building in Birubi St, Coorparoo; as well as around St Lucia where
they are
nearly impossible to miss, usually around the car park below the
Hartley
Teakle building on the UQ campus but also elsewhere.
When I was driving cabs at night around the city some years ago, there
weren't many suburbs where I didn't come across them, including in
suburban
estates where there are no shortage of cats and dogs. So the
interesting
query to me is not the name (Thick-knee is falling out of favour
anyway) but
why they've thrived in northern Australian cities while sliding
towards
extinction in the south. I suspect they have successfully adapted to
urban
life while being another victim of land clearance in woodlands
inland, and
note that in the suburbs they are almost always found in open and
well-lit
areas, which presumably helps protect them from predators.
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