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Brown Goshawks harrassing fruit bats - Centennial Park Sydney 2 April 20

To: Tom Wilson <>
Subject: Brown Goshawks harrassing fruit bats - Centennial Park Sydney 2 April 2016
From: Martin Butterfield <>
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 06:06:27 +0000
HANZAB doesn't - as far as I could see - include bats as prey of Brown
Goshawks.  But I wonder if that is because the studies cited were not from
places where bats are common?  I have seen a Goshawk feeding on a rabbit
-far bigger than a fruit bat - and obviously the Goshawk is a specialist in
flying prey.

Martin

Martin Butterfield
http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

On 2 April 2016 at 14:19, Tom Wilson <> wrote:

> Hi all
> whilst at Centennial Park this morning (Sat 2 April) I saw a pair of Brown
> Goshawks (which is not unusual in itself as I know they are reported from
> the park). They appeared from the SE at approx 10:50am and did some
> synchronised flying/circling, passing over the Randwick Pond and then the
> Duck Pond.  They then proceeded to circle at just above treetop height over
> the bat colony at Lachlan Swamp and appeared to enter the trees several
> times. The bats were very agitated and flying around.  The Goshawks looked
> like they were chasing the bats sometimes, but not every time they passed
> over the colony.  Not sure whether they were hunting the bats, something
> else or just stirring things up.  Would a Brown Goshawk eat a fruit bat?
> There were also 9 Cattle Egrets roosting on one of the islands at the Duck
> Pond.
> Cheers
> Tom Wilson
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