A Queer Bird Enqury

[Andrew Taylor <>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 07:10:38PM +1100, Carl Clifford wrote:
> I have just finished an abstract on a paper describing  courtship  
> behaviour between two female Hornbills, one a Great, which played the  
> male role, the other a Rhinoceros, the female role. Has anyone on the  
> list observed such behaviour in Australian species? I imagine that  
> homosexual miscegenation must be fairly uncommon in the animal world.

I'm not entirely sure why but there is a list in Wikipedia, including
an assortment of Australian birds.  Its taken shamelessly from a well
known book:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_displaying_homosexual_behavior

Also recently:
http://blogs.chesterchronicle.co.uk/and-finally/2009/03/and-finally-rare-duck-breeding.html

Andrew