It may have to remain shrouded in mystery.
On 03/09/2012, at 8:33 AM, "Chris Lloyd" <> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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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