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To: | Pat OMalley <> |
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Subject: | RE: gurgitation |
From: | Keith Brandwood <> |
Date: | Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:49:30 +1000 |
Pat OMalley wrote: The mention of Papuan Frogmouth regurgitating raises a question about which birds do routinely use this as a means of sorting the chaff fromthe grain, so to speak.Obviously owls cough up pellets, and when in Japan I notice severalJapanese Crows coughing up the carapaces of cicadas they had eaten.Is it only predatory species that do this, and is it all predatory birds? Are there also species that routinely puke up indigestible vegetable matter? Cheers Pat ============================www.birding-aus.org birding-aus.blogspot.comTo unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line)to: ============================ Ive seen Currawongs and Mangrove Kingfisher regurgitate. =============================== www.birding-aus.org birding-aus.blogspot.comTo unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: =============================== |
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