[rescue] ScaNet Info wanted

[Drew Whittle]

On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 22:32, Robert Rose wrote:

> You're thinking of the bower bird, although they're prone to stealing 
> things, particularly shiny things, rather than just "collecting".  Magpies 
> don't really collect junk, they just swoop anything (other birds, people, 
> dogs, cars) that invades their space when they're protecting their 
> young.  One theory is that it's the male of the species that gets 
> aggressive at mating time when their testicles swell up to like 4 times 
> normal size and impress the females by scaring off any potential threats to 
> the nest.
> 
> So, call yourself magpie if you really want, just don't come anywhere near me!

Yup Bower birds do it as well, but I'm definately thinking of magpie, ya
can google for it and find out that maggies do it too.

:D