The cuckoo may have mistaken a red rubber band for a worm or caterpillar. Postal
delivery staff use a lot of rubber bands and drop them all over the footpaths,
and many
other people drop them about. I pick them up whenever I see them, precisely
because
birds and beasts get tangled in them. The strong plastic retaining rings from
bottle
lids (milk containers etc) are just as dangerous, if not worse, because of the
abrasive
nature of the broken plastic points. I have seen a horrendous photo of a
platypus
tangled and badly wounded by the ring from a yoghurt jar.
Anthea Fleming
>>From Desley Williams Mackay
>
> Last week whilst attending the Baptist Church which is set up each Sunday
> under a school
> building (don't have a hall yet) there was what I believe to be an immature
> Pallid
> Cuckoo rarely seen in Mackay which was sitting on a chair. There was red on
> both sides
> at the back of its mouth which was partly open, assuming it could not shut it
> completely. At first I through it was blood but one of the Deacons said
> "look at the
> back of its head, there is red there also; it's a rubber band or the lid of a
> bottle."
> I could see a bit of red under the feathers at the back of the head. I
> tried to catch
> it, but it flew out and landed on a railing; tried to catch it again but it
> flew and
> landed on a roof. I did not see it again.
>
> Does anybody have any clues as to how this could have happened. If children
> had done it
> I wonder how they would catch it because I could not catch it. Perhaps it
> would break
> the plastic/rubber band or perhaps it could still eat with its mouth partly
> open.
>
> Regards Desley Williams
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