Graham, someone mentioned this behaviour to
me recently, and I learned that it was well-documented and that one of
the names for the bird used to be Shufflewing. I forget what it was
about, but perhaps someone else knows.
Cheers,
Jill
Jill Dening
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
26° 51' 41"S 152° 56' 00"E
Graham Goodman wrote:
Hi
Last week (30 October) Shirley and I saw four black-faced cuckoo shrikes in
a tree near our home in Alice Springs. The birds were excited, making
plenty of noise and moving about. They all appeared to be engaged in some
kind of display behaviour which involved extending their necks and making a
moderately harsh cawing noise. The striking feature of the behaviour that
all four birds showed was the flapping of alternate wings about four times
each, which we saw repeated a number of times. Each wing was flapped up and
down on its own, first the right, then the left, about four times for each
wing.
I would be interested to hear if others have seen such behaviour and if
anyone has any interpretation.
Regards
Graham Goodman
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