Still another female is using hole/s excavated / enlarged in the replaced eave
of an old 2-storey building. Throughout the town, males call & call, getting
ever closer to the entrance, till they can feed their female there or outside.
JLA
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> Date: 2 October 2016 at 5:16:34 PM AEST
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> Subject: Fwd: unusual / adaptive nest
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> And on the other side of the town common, a female Red-Rump is using a metal
> hollow inside the high overhang of one of Crows Nest's newest buildings.
> Seems to be a species culture here.
>
> JLA
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>> From: Judith L-A <>
>> Date: 30 September 2016 at 2:57:33 PM AEST
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>> Subject: Fwd: unusual / adaptive nest
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>> Both birds sweep in again, & onto the top of the 2nd pediment. The male
>> feeds the female copiously, then both fly off again. Perhaps the nest is not
>> complete yet? Though certainly the female spent plenty of time in/at it,
>> earlier...
>>
>> JLA
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>>> From: Judith L-A <>
>>> Date: 30 September 2016 at 2:34:41 PM AEST
>>> To:
>>> Subject: unusual / adaptive nest
>>>
>>> Red-rumpled Parrot --
>>>
>>> In the centre of Crows Nest town (Qld), a pair of Red-rumps nesting inside
>>> the fascia-pediment of an old brick shop. A couple of metres away, in the
>>> opposite crevice-corner, sparrows are nest-building.
>>>
>>> No date on the building, but architectural signs of age outside & in, &
>>> signs of repair/exclusion attempts in the paired crevice-corners of both
>>> pediments.
>>>
>>> The brown female goes in, while the bright male flits about on the cornice
>>> above, twittering, till finally he takes to the powerline, calls her out, &
>>> they dash away together.
>>>
>>> JLA
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