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Philip,

Dug through my pics and found some of the juvenile Koels.

In the third pic there is one at the top and one at the bottom, and in the first one it looks like one is preening the other one.

Only one Red wattle Bird in the second however…..

 

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Rod Mackay

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From: Philip Veerman <>
Sent: Sunday, 10 November 2019 11:35 PM
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Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Melbourne Koel

 

OK. I would need to think about that. Seems very strange, as cuckoos will only have one chick per nest. Because cuckoo chicks will kill any other chick in the nest. How would two juvenile Koels get together? It must mean two separate nests were nearby that strangely the chicks have perched together. So by rights there should have been four wattlebirds attending them.

 

Philip

 

 

 

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Sent: Sunday, 10 November, 2019 9:28 PM
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Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Melbourne Koel

 

There were probably two, but I only saw the one red wattlebird at the time.

The juvenile Koels were already out of the nest and perched together on a tree branch when the wattle bird flew in with some food for them.

 

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From: Philip Veerman <m("pcug.org.au","pveerman");">>
Sent: Monday, 28 October 2019 10:56 PM
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Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Melbourne Koel

 

Are you telling us that ONE red wattlebird was feeding two juvenile Koels? Or could this be two red wattlebirds.

In Canberra where Koels have only occurred in the last 20 years, they are now a common breeder and only use red wattlebirds.

 

Philip

 

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Sent: Monday, 28 October, 2019 6:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Melbourne Koel

 

Hi all,

I saw a red wattlebird feeding two juvenile Koels in Port Stephens last year, I believe in December.

Quite fascinating as the wattle bird was feeding them bugs

 

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Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Melbourne Koel

 

They have been vocally harassing Red Wattlebirds in Mallacoota for about a month.

 

Martin Butterfield

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On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 at 08:05, Bill Stent <m("gmail.com","billstent");">> wrote:

Hi all, Bill here

There was a Koel calling in Kew East this morning. Another sign of Spring, as well as the apparently increasing range of the bird.
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