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To: | "'inger vandyke'" <>, <>, <> |
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Subject: | Re: Raven's stealing golf balls. |
From: | "Stephen Ambrose" <> |
Date: | Mon, 17 May 2010 14:38:22 +1000 |
As Inger said, corvids are known to cache food. It's possible that the raven thought the golf ball was an egg and buried it in the ground for later consumption. Thieving of white golf balls by Australian corvids is quite common. I've heard that fluoro- orange and pink balls are taken less readily. Stephen Ambrose Ryde NSW =============================== www.birding-aus.org birding-aus.blogspot.com To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: =============================== |
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