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Inter bird species alarm calls by common garden birds by a retired electrical engineer. (1 Viewer)

greykangaroo

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Australia
My garden in Perth Western Australia is populated by uncountable species of birds that makes it hard to list them all.
As everyone knows that follow bird's habbits, they come and go seasonally. The transients are mostly the larger birds.
But there is a base load [ power station spiel] of birds that are always here.
The little birds that live in the shrubs, plus the medium birds that come and go, and some large birds remain, [mainly parrot species] Butcher birds, mudlarks, wattle birds, Coocoo shrikes and Magpies.
I have noticed that the bigger and medium sized birds absolutely rely on the alarm calls of the little birds in the shrubs.
The honey eaters seem to watch the sky around the clock and are ready to give off an alarm call like DRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! that sees all species explode into the sky.

One has to analize this and proclude that most birds are really of one species of animal that are just different sizes, colours and shapes.

Like my favourite, Willy Wagtail for instance.



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