Not a raptor but while on Norfolk Island this year I watched two Crimson
Rosellas continually chase and harass a Red-tailed Tropicbird that was coming
into a cliff to land. While the tropicbird was far too agile for the rosellas
to get too close it kept coming in to try and land and they kept chasing it off
again. Quite amusing.
Cheers
Tim
> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:32:55 -0700
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Parrots that harass raptors
>
> When I was in Aus filming on my very last day of my 6 month parrot filming
> adventure in February of 2009 I still needed one more species to have filmed
> all Aussie Parrots (except for Night Parrot.. grin) My last was in the Blue
> Mountains - Glossy-black Cockatoo.
>
> I was about to leave the Tablelands Road area near Wentworth where I had
> been searching for 3 days when I heard some throaty cries coming from way
> way up in the air. Barely recognizable because they were just specks in the
> sky, there were at least 2 Glossies chasing a large raptor (too far away to
> identify it). They seemed bent on harassing and kept repeatedly swooping at
> it and giving chase. The raptor seemed unnerved at times and it appeared
> like they ushered it out of the area. Fortunately for me once it left they
> spiraled down and then presented themselves to be filmed!
>
> Has anyone else witnessed parrots harassing raptors? I had no idea that
> they did this and it seemed a bit suicidal to me at the time!
>
> Cheers!
>
> Don Kimball
> http://polytelismedia.wordpress.com/
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