G’day John
I remember seeing a white ibis missing about with a cane toad that was twice
the size of its skull. It was tossing the toad around by a leg.
Obviously it would be impossible for the ibis to swallow the toad whole, so I
figured it might be trying to break a leg off …
Regards, Laurie
> On 25 Sep 2024, at 9:03 pm, calyptorhynchus <> wrote:
>
> 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 <>
> 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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