Yes, three Spangled Drongos. They kept it up for twenty minutes. At times
the victim was almost buried out of sight in the leaf litter.
Denise
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on 20/12/08 8:37 AM, Rob Geraghty at wrote:
> Most bizarre thing I saw the other day;
>
> Three Indian Mynahs in the gutter at the side of a Newcastle street. One bird
> was on its back with its wings flat on the road. The other two birds were
> pecking at it. I thought the bird on the ground was dead until it leapt up,
> ran around a bit, but then was driven to the ground and onto its back again by
> the other two birds. I've seen birds fighting before but nothing as vicious
> as that.
>
> Has anyone else ever seen this sort of behaviour?
>
> Rob
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