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notice the colour of his claws. His plumage was mainly black with a slaty

grey area on the back. The brown female had a bright yellow bill and legs.

As many fruit-eating tropical birds drive away other fruit-eaters from the

trees they are feeding on or guarding against an expected future shortage it

seems highly likely that the Yellow-legged Thrush also uses its legs and feet

to enhance its threatening flight chase as the Mistle Thrush does.


References


Cousens, D. 2007. The Mistle Thrush. Bird Watching May 2007.


Newton, I. 1986. The Sparrow Hawk. T. & A. D. Poyser, Calton.


Snow, B. and Snow, D. 1988. Birds and Berries. T. & A. D. Poyser, Calton.



JUST FINCHES AND SEED-EATERS


Finches ‘08, the Third International Finch and Seed-eater Convention,

organised by the Queensland Finch Society, will be held from May 2nd-

May 4th 2008, in Brisbane, Australia. Among the speakers will be Jugal

Tiwari from Gujarat, who will talk about a study of the Green Avadavat

Sporaeginthus formosus (Amandava formosa) in India; Howard Robinson

from the UK, who will describe his experiences of keeping and breeding

the more unusual estrildids; and Simon Espley from Cape Town, South

Africa, who will talk about breeding African finches the African way.

Further information is available from: The Convention Registrar, PO. Box

219, Capalaba, Queensland 4157, Australia. Tel:+61 7 3822 3826/Fax:+61

7 3822 6565/E-mail:flashlpalm@ozemail.com.au



