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Song Thrush: Friday Bird in Focus

To: "Tim Dolby" <>, "birding aus" <>
Subject: Song Thrush: Friday Bird in Focus
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Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:05:16 +1000



Tim wrote:

"Snails! Song Thrush love snails! A sure fire why to track them down is to
look for empty piles of snail shells"

When I was growing up in Coburg in the 1950s, Song Thrushes were very
common and I would often watch them breaking snail shells against a rock or
the footpath prior to eating the snail.  By the early 1960s, Song Thrushes
were rarely seen and my mother, who was a keen observer of nature (and
still is), said that their absence was a consequence of eating snails
poisoned with snail pellets.

How close to the mark was she?

David


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