Bird with Red bottletop around beak/head identified

[inger vandyke <>]

Hi Rob,If anyone got a photo of this bird I'd love to see it.  I am another 
cutter of milk and other bottle rings but because I have seen them wrapped 
around seabird necks which makes me angry to the point of stepping outside my 
personality.Great Bowerbirds have a taste for white and pink I think?  I have 
seen them with some green bits and pieces but white seems to be the 
predominant.  If you ever want to see some interesting footage on Bowerbirds, 
David Attenborough did a documentary with the assistance of the Friths on the 
Bowerbirds of Australia.  There was some great shots of Great Bowerbirds 
pilfering stuff out of children's playgrounds and from a cemetery which I 
believe was shot in Townsville - just up the road from this bird.I was a bit 
surprised but saddened at the same time to hear that this had happened to a 
Bowerbird as they are some of my favourite birds in Australia - if a little 
obsessive/compulsive.:-)  Inger> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:27:12 -0800> From: 
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Bird with Red bottletop around 
beak/head identified> To: > > --- On Wed, 11/19/08, 
Kurtis Lindsay <> wrote:>> What a lucky bird to have 
survived this long! It's a>> sad fact that many Bowerbirds especially Satin 
and>> Great Bowerbirds perish from getting plastic>> caught around their heads 
or necks.> > And it could be easily prevented in the case of Satin Bowerbirds 
simply by avoiding shades of blue that they're attracted to.  Do Great 
Bowerbirds have particular colour preferences?  I've only seen Satin Bowerbird 
bowers.> > Rob> > > >       > ===============================> 
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