Mike, That is the same bird, I was talking to you about the other evening at Starbeam's, that I saw in the pet store next to Petchisam Plaza. --Joe--
For "Isaanbirder"- I walked past that same pet shop yesterday afternoon & there were 2 black kites in a cage.They re v/big birds & the cage was far too small.My
Birds of Thai book says:-Winter visitor & passage migrant.A few breed in the central plains! I wondered where they would have acquired them?Any ideas?
English alan.
I have seen this kind of thing near the Petckesem Plaza in a pet shop(NOT GOOD) I don’t know what they are thinking! I had a friend had 2 birds of pray in the U-K --BUT --he used to fligh them every day, hunting for rabbits and so on. What would the Thai do with a bloody bird of prey in a cage?Think1
I’m sure the late great ‘Isaan Birder’ would have been able to give you a very informative reply to that.I sat in the garden last night and heard this bird calling starting with a low pitched whistle starting out low and gradually rising. I pitched my whistle to answer it and with that it started to raise it's pitch, so for fun I raised mine a quarter tone higher, to which the bird did gradually raising it's tone higher than mine until it was almost at screaming pitch. It would stop then I would start up again like playing a game which attracted a bird of the same species in the next field to join in. It was great fun for me maybe not for the bird who might have seen me as a threat for territory. But no one got hurt and in a small way I was pleased that he thought I was another bird.