[Birding-Aus] Birds at the cricket
Trevor Hampel
During the ABCTV news coverage of the first cricket test from Bangalore,
India, this evening they showed some excellent close up shots of what
looked like Black Kites soaring over the oval.
I've never been birding in India - does this mean I can officially start
my Indian Bird List?
Happy birding.
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Russell Woodford
call them "Hawks". I haven't seen any footage (Foxtel, anybody?) but
the Black Kite in northern India is now split - Pariah Kite I think.
Russell
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peter crow
mentioned the kites circling and calling over the field.
By all means Trevor start your India list. Mine will have to be a
heard.
Peter
On 11/10/2008, at 8:52 PM, Trevor Hampel wrote:
> Hi there birders,
>
> During the ABCTV news coverage of the first cricket test from
> Bangalore, India, this evening they showed some excellent close up
> shots of what looked like Black Kites soaring over the oval.
>
> I've never been birding in India - does this mean I can officially
> start my Indian Bird List?
>
> Happy birding.
>
>
> --
> Trevor Hampel
>
Paul Doyle
The cameraman tried to follow it in close-up as it took off, but lost it.
Looked like a Black Kite ( or their split cousin) at a glance.
Paul Doyle
Evan Beaver
forked tail looked pretty good to me. Maybe smaller than our kite?
Very hard to tell.
I wonder if we'd hate them as much if kites replaced silver gulls
around the city?
EB
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Evan Beaver
Lapstone, Blue Mountains, NSW
lat=-33.77, lon=150.64
L&L Knight
replaced gulls round the city, it would be due to a plague of rats or
something similar and that people might appreciate the "work" they do.
flam...@labyrinth.net.au
claws are very sharp. In northern Australia I have seen barbecues at camping areas
surrounded by 'kite baffles' - usually a lampshade-shaped structure of chicken wire from
about human head height upwards. They are needed. If you think Kookaburras are
unwelcome guests, Kites are much worse. Their speed, agility and willingness to approach
humans (if there's any food going) are remarkable.
In the days of the Raj, newly arrived British soldiers soon learned not to carry their
food uncovered from the cookhouse - it would be instantly snatched and the soldier left
hungry.
Anthea Fleming
> I'd don't believe that kites are vegetarians, so I think if kites
> replaced gulls round the city, it would be due to a plague of rats or
> something similar and that people might appreciate the "work" they do.
>
> On 13/10/2008, at 8:32 AM, Evan Beaver wrote:
>
>> I've only seen them zoom past the camera a couple of times, but the
>> forked tail looked pretty good to me. Maybe smaller than our kite?
>> Very hard to tell.
>>
>> I wonder if we'd hate them as much if kites replaced silver gulls
>> around the city?
>>
>> EB
>>
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Elizabeth Shaw
scavengers. Also by the the side of highways scavenging roadkill.
Elizabeth Shaw
Phillip Island
Victoria
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