Wild Bird Mutations

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Craig52
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OK Brooksy,tell the truth what did you do with it seeing it bit you :lol: :D :o Craig
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Ok ok I must admit temptation got the better of me while I was holding it in my right hand I put my left palm in front of its beak (kinda like the electric fence thing) last time I do that, I had to prise it beak open with my other hand :shifty:
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Brooksy,

re the butcherbird. It is not a colour mutation. Juvenile colouring. I have couple of the same colored ones around home but find that they are the first year chicks of the grey butcherbird. Admittedly they are not that light coloured but that is the colour of the juvenile, that is why they are so approachable and able to be caught. Just kids.

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I think he stuffed up with the topic heading Ken,it should have read Wild Bird Mutalation :lol: Craig
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matcho wrote:Brooksy,

re the butcherbird. It is notsomethingcolour mutation. Juvenile colouring. I have couple of the same colored ones around home but find that they are the first year chicks of the grey butcherbird. Admittedly they are not that light coloured but that is the colour of the juvenile, that is why they are so approachable and able to be caught. Just kids.

Ken.
I thought it was a young bird, there you go you learn something new everyday. I couldn't get near it in the yard, I had to catch it in a trap. The photos were in the bird room after it bit me
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Craig52 wrote:I think he stuffed up with the topic heading Ken,it should have read Wild Bird Mutalation :lol: Craig
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With a beak like that on such a young bird it could qualify as an eagle!
Better relocate him/her a long way away now, if they are such are smart bird you wouldnt catch it so easily next time.
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When I was a kid sooo long ago I was a rabid egg collector and the only birds nest we were reluctant to raid was the Grey Butcher Bird
we were convinced they attacked out of the sun like the old aviators.
One actually split my mates brow open, they had virtually no fear.
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They are the most adept avian aerialists bar none and I have kept raptors....swifts, swallows, nightjars maybe sharper...dunno.
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E Orix wrote:When I was a kid sooo long ago I was a rabid egg collector and the only birds nest we were reluctant to raid was the Grey Butcher Bird
we were convinced they attacked out of the sun like the old aviators.
One actually split my mates brow open, they had virtually no fear.
I have a grey butcherbird egg in my collection :D

I did get a lot of pleasure watching a battle between a grey butcherbird and a metre long red bellied black snake a while back. They don't fear much at all
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