One of my local shopping centres (in Brisbane) has tipuanas (or
similar) as shade trees in its carpark. As I was loading some
shopping bags I noticed movement a few metres away on one of the lower
branches. A male figbird was feeding lilly pilly fruits to some day
old hatchlings. It flew off and was replaced by the female which
continued to feed fruit to the hatchlings. (I have currawongs
scoffing the lilly pilly fruit in my back yard). It was cute watching
the little upstretched bills begging for more food - they were like
wide-angled venus fly traps ...
Anyhow, it struck me as interesting that fig birds would choose a low
branch (only a couple of metres off the ground) on a weed species in a
shopping centre carpark for a nest site - not sure if they chose it
because it was a vacant territory with access to food or because the
risk of predation might be lower ...
Regards, Laurie.
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