I have seen Red-tailed Black Cockatoos sidle up next to Black Falcons on a
perch. It is a classic example of 'keep your enemies close to you' as the BF
was unable to launch an attack (if he/she chose to) on these birds if they
stayed close. As the BF moved along the perch and away from the RTBC's, they
moved the same distance towards the BF but stayed just far enough away to be
out of 'footing' distance. When the BF had enough it took off and the RTBC,s
chased for about 100 metres and then returned to their normal duties.
Cheers,
Anthony Molyneux
Alice Springs
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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