If anyone is confused about the behaviour to
which Graham referred, my friend captured it in her garden recently,
and it is posted on her blog at the following address. The video is
down the page a bit.
Cheers,
Jill
Jill Dening
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
26° 51' 41"S 152° 56' 00"E
Rob Geraghty wrote:
--- On Tue, 11/4/08, Graham Goodman m("bigpond.com","graham.goodman");"><> wrote:
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.
Hi Graham,
Black faced Cuckoo-Shrikes normally flip their wings when they land. Other birds have particular habits when they land such as Crested Pigeons flipping their tails. But the behaviour you describe sounds a bit more complicated. Maybe it's a courtship ritual? I saw a pair of Black Swans a week ago swimming back and forth in a fixed pose, mirroring each other's motion. Luckily I even got a clip of video. I'm pretty sure that this is a courtship ritual. Maybe you had a glimpse of the secret life of Cuckoo-Shrikes? :)
Rob
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