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Noisy Pitta prey item

To: Tom Tarrant <>
Subject: Noisy Pitta prey item
From: Carl Clifford <>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:14:34 +1100
Hi Tom,

Looking at the images, particularly number 3, I wonder if the prey might be something like a juvenile Feathertail Glider. The forelimbs in img.3 seem to be fur covered and end in a paw without the long dactyls one would expect to see in a bat. Also the head looks more like that of a glider or small possum.

It will be interesting to see what others on the list think.

Cheers,

Carl Clifford


On 04/01/2012, at 11:30 AM, Tom Tarrant wrote:

Recently whilst observing a Noisy Pitta nest at Mount Glorious SE Qld we
photographed one of the parents carrying a large prey-item, which may be a small bat-species (possibly a baby?......Chris Corben are you out there?)
I've uploaded some rather poor pics onto Picasa at
http://picasaweb.google.com/110205168839616870680/MtGloriousNoisyPitta?authkey=Gv1sRgCJHt0-vl1Ke1pQE
They were taken with a Canon EOS7D with an extreme ISO setting (6400) to
avoid using a flash.
For obvious reasons I won't give any precise locations of the nest at the moment as the young are currently about to fledge, but I would welcome any
comments regarding the prey item.

Tom

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