I wonder if this sort of behaviour is the protection of what might turn out to
be a stunned bird until it recovers, rather than any kind of mourning, etc.
Peter Shute
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>I have seen similar behaviour with Cacatuidae in general and SCCs in
>particular. On one occasion I came through the lights at the
>intersection of King George's Road and Princess Highway in Carss Park
>and found five SCCs gathered around or near a dead conspecific in the
>gutter. Those familiar with this southern Sydney intersection will be
>used to the spectacle of SCCs and Little Corellas dive bombing the six
>lanes of traffic and occasionally getting hit - no different to any
>other group of 25somethings in WRXs or Lancers on the Queens turnpike.
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>So knowing there was serious risk of the rest of this gang of miscreants
>becoming tread marks I picked up the body, to much vocalization, and
>took it home to Arncliffe (about three kilometres as the cocky flies).
>On going to the flat block's bins I was verbally assaulted by about four
>SCC's who appeared to have followed my car - one had a bare shoulder
>which identified it as either a double or the same bird back at the
>roadside.
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>Interpretation? Well I have always been a great admirer of Donald
>Rumsfeld both sartorially (that combat boot/pin stripe ensemble was
>beyond Zegna) and his turn of phrase "We don't know what we don't know".
>So for me, like Donny, a known, unknown.
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>This is one of numerous incidents like this involving cockys spp. and
>Indian Mynahs on roadsides that I have seen in both the city and the
>country.
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>Chris Lloyd
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