Quite often I see a shrike thrush on my bird feeder (usually after the parrots have left or arrived!) Although these birds reputedly mainly eat grubs and insects, they certainly seem to enjoy a feast of birdseed as well!
Sometimes it raises its beak up and stabs the seeds as though to break them apart. I managed to catch this behaviour on (rather poor quality) video:
http://soakes.com/pics/shrikethrush.MOV
Has anyone else seen this sort of behaviour?
- soakes
Hi Soaks This dreadful drought has caused many birds to find other sources of food. My Superb Lyrebirds are eating "Budgie" mix put out for the Finches & other seed eating birds. The Pied Currwong takes Black sunflower seed,
For the Superb Lyrebird . was advised to suppliment "Dog sausage". The birds were starving, ground like concrete. It has been succesfull.