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Behaviour of Island Thrush on Christmas Island

To: Laurie Knight <>, calyptorhynchus <>
Subject: Behaviour of Island Thrush on Christmas Island
From: Andrew Ross via Birding-Aus <>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:31:34 +0000

Nah. It was just a NSW supporter.

 

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From: Birding-Aus <> On Behalf Of Laurie Knight
Sent: Friday, 27 September 2024 3:55 PM
To: calyptorhynchus <>
Cc: Birding Aus <>
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Behaviour of Island Thrush on Christmas Island

 

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:
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> 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
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> 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.
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> John Leonard
> Canberra
> Australia
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