Climbing the tree doesn't sound like normal birder bad behaviour. That sounds
more like an egg collector.
Peter Shute
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [birding-aus-
> On Behalf Of Denise Goodfellow
>Sent: Friday, 17 August 2012 7:43 AM
>To: Birding Aus
>Subject: [Birding-Aus] Red Goshawk harrassment
>
>While in Mataranka recently I heard about the behaviour of some birders
>towards the Red Goshawk near Bitter Springs. Some had climbed the fence
>into private property and one, according to the proprietor of the nearby
>caravan park , had even climbed the tree in which the bird nested.
>
>Several other birders (thirty or forty according to the proprietor) had
>camped outside their property opposite the nesting tree.
>That year, according to the proprietor, the birds didn't raise any
>young.
>
>Some years ago I warned birders of the ramifications of bad behaviour re
>entry to the Leanyer Sewage Ponds. The result was that access to the
>ponds
>was tightened considerably.
>
>The goshawks have now shifted their nest well away from the road. If
>they
>shift it again then the bird may well be out of sight of visiting
>birders,
>and they'll be dependent on the goodwill of the owner of that property
>to
>let them in. I think that reserve of goodwill may be wearing thin.
>
>Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
>1/7 Songlark Street,
>Bakewell, NT 0832
>043 8650 835
>
>PhD candidate, SCU
>Vice-chair, Wildlife Tourism Australia
>Nominated for the Condé Nast international ecotourism award, 2004 by the
>renowned American website, Earthfoot.
>Wildlife Adviser, BBC¹s ŒDeadly 60¹
>
>Birds of Australia's Top End and Quiet Snake Dreaming available on
>amazon.com
>A second edition of Fauna of Australia¹s Top End used by the University
>of
>NSW as a text for 12 years is now under preparation.
>
>'It gave me huge insight into the lives' of Aboriginal Australians¹,
> Jonathon Franzen, American author, birder, conservationist (August,
>2011)
>on Quiet Snake Dreaming.
>
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