Brown Goshawks harrassing fruit bats - Centennial Park Sydney 2 April 2016

[storm <>]

hey all

There are plenty of ignorant juvenile bats in camp at the moment who would
be stupid enough to get off the branch when startled.

Every year, around this time of year, juvenile and adult bats come into
care with apparent raptor wounds. Raptor bats have deep puncture wounds
around the body and membrane without fractures. Injuries caused by dogs are
major crush injuries with significant fractures. Cats are rarely, if ever,
responsible for attacks on fruit bats.

cheers

Storm




On 2 April 2016 at 17:06, Martin Butterfield <> wrote:

> 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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