When I worked for the NSW National Parks service I heard of this bird so
popped in to see it. It was sitting in the garden bed right near the club
house door. It had been on its own for about ten years before I saw it in
1999 or maybe 2000. I'm amazed that it is still there. A groundskeeper I
spoke to mentioned that a bird being killed by a golf ball many years
before, when there were four or five birds on the course.
Another famous single stone-curlew is the one that lives along the inlet
shore in Narooma. Apparently it has laid eggs before. Can anyone confirm
this?
We often wondered how they would go being put together!!
Cheers
Anthony
2009/9/9 Bob Carr <>
> A belated response, however ...
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> On a birding excursion in the Wagga Wagga area some months ago a guy
> said "You've seen the Bush Stone-curlew , of course". 'Yes, I've seen
> a Bush Stone-curlew, but not for some time".
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> "No, the one at the golf course".
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> And the story came .... as long as 30 years ago a pair of Bush
> Stone-curlews lived and bred on a local golf course. Some (unknown)
> years ago the female and a juvenile were bashed to death with sticks by
> some kids. Since then the male has remained at the golf course,
> regularly camping under bushes along the edge of the car park. There
> are also stories of him looking at his reflection in the glass doors of
> the pro-shop. I recalled a work colleague asking me some time ago
> about a bird at the golf course that looked at people with one eye. A
> bush Stone-curlew never entered my mind.
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> "Late of an afternoon he is at the north-west corner of the top car park
> under the cotoneaster bushes". So we went, expecting Ibis, White-faced
> Heron, Purple Swamphen, who knows? Penne took the camera "Just in
> case". Just after sun down we drove into the car park and under the
> cotoneaster was a ........ Bush Stone-curlew!
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> BOB CARR
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