Behaviour of Island Thrush on Christmas Island

[calyptorhynchus <>]

Sorry I shouldn’t have said picking off, what the informant said was that the Thrush picked the crab up by a leg and shook it until it came off, then repeated the process until the crab was leg and clawless.

John Leonard
Canberra
Australia
www.jleonard.net

Make nature great again.

On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 at 4:17 pm calyptorhynchus <m("gmail.com","calyptorhynchus");">> wrote:

This I s not my observation is the observation of the guy who runs the accommodation I’m staying at on Christmas Island.

He says that he’s noticed Island Thrushes in his backyard hopping around finding very small red crabs and meticulously picking all the legs and claws off the crab before swallowing it whole. I don’t know whether this behaviour is ever been noted before but I just thought I’d post it here.

I’m on Christmas Island at the moment I haven’t seen any vagrants, I’ve just just been concentrating on seeing the endemics.

John Leonard
Canberra
Australia
www.jleonard.net

Make nature great again.

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