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Rainbow Lorikeet bullies Magpie

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Subject: Rainbow Lorikeet bullies Magpie
From: brian fleming <>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:32:10 +1100
A friend just sent me this and I thought it well worth sharing.
Anthea Fleming


Saw something that astonished me the other day: watching a pair of magpies puttering about on a friend's bird feeder/table. Rainbow lorrikeet lands, strides purposefully across table, like a slightly drunken sailor in search of more whisky - HEADBUTTS Magpie straight in the breastbone - magpie falls appx 4 ft to the ground....picks self up in a 'yes sir, anything you say sir' kind of way, and continues to peck about on the ground...lorrikeet takes charge of entirety of table. no ifs, buts or maybes

am absolutely astonished by this. I know rainbow lorrikeets are ratbags but am unaccustomed to the concept of a magpie taking second place under any circumstance (have known a friend's cat to hide from magpies, after catching one....and copping the ire of its relatives ever after). Have you seen such a thing?





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