Anecdotally, I can offer the opposite to Evan's experience.
We have friends that have eucalypts in their front yard in Eltham
(Victoria). A (family?) group of Tawny Frogmouths use the same tree - even
the same branch - for months on end then disappear for days, weeks or months
at a time. Ultimately they always come back to the same branch on the same
tree, though. This behaviour has been going on for quite a number of years.
Paul Dodd
Docklands, Melbourne
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Evan Beaver
Sent: Friday, 16 May 2008 2:14 PM
To: michael norris
Cc: birding-aus
Subject: Tawny Frogmouth nest site fidelity
As always I can't help you exactly but I'm interested in the outcome
and can contribute an anecdote.
There's a tree near home that a Tawny roosts in sporadically, and I
can find no correlation between when it uses it and not. It might
sleep there every day for a week, then disappear for months, then back
again for a day, and gone again. I suspect they're intelligent and
slightly skittish creatures with a good connection with what's going
on around them. Maybe they're easily spooked and move on after some
sort of disturbance. Perhaps the same mechanism occurs with nesting
sites?
Eb
On 5/16/08, michael norris <> wrote:
> Do Tawny Frogmouths usually - or prefer to - nest in the same tree year
> after year ?
>
> The indications from our Bayside records are that the answer is 'no'. But
> that may be because (1) I don't have much to go on, and (2) disturbance or
> changes in the tree (eg. a failing canopy).
>
> I know of some highly favoured roost trees - but I'd really like to know
> about data on nests.
>
> Michael Norris
> Bayside Friends of Native Wildlife
> ===============================
> www.birding-aus.org
> birding-aus.blogspot.com
>
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message:
> unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
> to:
> ===============================
>
--
Evan Beaver
Lapstone, Blue Mountains, NSW
lat=-33.77, lon=150.64
===============================
www.birding-aus.org
birding-aus.blogspot.com
To unsubscribe from this mailing list,
send the message:
unsubscribe
(in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to:
===============================
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG.
Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1445 - Release Date: 15/05/2008
7:25 PM
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG.
Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1445 - Release Date: 15/05/2008
7:25 PM
===============================
www.birding-aus.org
birding-aus.blogspot.com
To unsubscribe from this mailing list,
send the message:
unsubscribe
(in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to:
===============================
|
