I concur with Martin and Greg. This is normal behaviour.
Regards,
Alan
On 30/12/2017 6:46 PM, martin cachard wrote:
> I would tend to agree with you Greg...
>
> I've seen similar behaviour up here with Laughing Kookaburras and even Forest
> Kingfishers too.
>
>
> cheers,
>
> martin cachard,
>
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> & trinity beach, cairns...
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> To: Alice Stanford;
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Kookaburras
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> Hi Alice,
>
> I am no authority on Kookaburras but it sounds to me like a couple of family
> groups defining their adjoining territories. I look forward to the opinions
> of others.
>
> Regards
>
> Greg
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alice Stanford
> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 5:28 PM
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Kookaburras
>
> I wonder if you could help me with a mystery?
>
> I have read a lot of pieces about kookaburras now on the internet but am
> still confused about some behaviour I recently saw in a number of places in
> the Dandenong Ranges. At intervals of perhaps 1 kilometer (on made paths) I
> found larger groups of kookaburras (too many to be typical family groups)
> congregating together doing trapeze flights and singing and vocalising in a
> wonderful various way. Individuals seemed to be "establishing contact" with
> one flying to perch beside another (which often relatively quickly
> withdrew). I assumed this was all some kind of courtship process in which a
> number of families joined as unbonded young ones paired up, but nothing I
> have found on the internet confirms this assumption. Have you seen the same
> behaviour? Can you explain to me what is going on?
>
> I contacted Marc Anderson (who writes on kookaburras), but he was not sure
> about how to explain this behaviour and suggested I contact you instead.
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