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Bird with Red bottletop around beak/head identified

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Subject: Bird with Red bottletop around beak/head identified
From: "Bill Stent" <>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:18:40 +0100
Bill here, currently working a year in Bergen in Norway.

The bottle caps they have here automatically tear when you open them,
preventing anything like this from happening.  The ring ends up attached as
a tail, not a loop, to the cap.

I wonder how difficult it would be to regulate for such a design in Oz?
It's probably not difficult if the design already exists.  There may be
patent fees to pay, but I'm sure the designers would be very amenable to
negotiation.



-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of Rob Geraghty
Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2008 9:27 AM
To: Birding Aus
Subject: Bird with Red bottletop around beak/head
identified

--- 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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