S8 Ep820: Dallas the Dog and the Territorial Bird Disputes of New South Wales Guest: Jeremy Zakis Summary: Jeremy discusses how his dog, Dallas, has established a territorial division in their yard to manage local bird species during the winter,. Dallas is highly
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Dallas the Dog and the Territorial Bird Disputes of New South Wales
Guest: Jeremy Zakis Summary: Jeremy discusses how his dog, Dallas, has established a territorial division in their yard to manage local bird species during the winter,. Dallas is highly protective of his "friends," specifically magpies and rosellas, allowing them on the grass while aggressively chasing minor birds and Currawongs into the driveway and garage areas,. This behavioral discrimination stems from a Currawong attempting to steal Dallas's tennis ball, an act the dog found unacceptable. Unlike birds in the Northern Hemisphere, these Australian species do not migrate for the winter and are known to huddle together even during rare snowfalls in the nearby Blue Mountains,.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel. This is the Friends Mr. Debating Society from New England, where it's coming |
| 0:05.2 | beautiful spring, enough rain, sunshine through the clouds, to New South Wales, where they're getting |
| 0:13.0 | Antarctic blasts, in addition to drought on the continent, all kinds of Australian weather that is |
| 0:20.4 | unusual to me. I'm learning. |
| 0:23.3 | At the same time, we have to attend to our bird friends because there's no migrating in |
| 0:28.4 | Australia. When it comes fall here, the Canadian geese are overhead immediately in huge formations. |
| 0:36.2 | And then a lot of the colorful birds from summertime disappear. |
| 0:39.2 | Some stick around. |
| 0:40.5 | The Cardinals don't leave. |
| 0:42.5 | However, in New South Wales, they all stick around. |
| 0:45.4 | Winter, spring, summer. |
| 0:46.7 | And it's coming winter. |
| 0:48.5 | And they found a mark, which is Jeremy, |
| 0:51.2 | because he gives them some... |
| 0:53.0 | Dallas and Jeremy share breakfast with the |
| 0:55.6 | local bird population depending and Dallas is becoming more discriminating an 11-half-year-old |
| 1:04.1 | and the discrimination has to do with the fact that he's got a favorite and then he has new favorites |
| 1:15.5 | but something's happened Jeremy I didn't quite follow what the contest is it's not the cockatoos |
| 1:22.1 | they're villainous and Dallas wouldn't tolerate them but there's trouble with the curawongs |
| 1:27.2 | what what is that that's right with the Kurowongs. What is that? |
| 1:29.6 | That's right, John. |
| 1:30.6 | The Kuro Wong's are basically, if you think of a magpie, sort of black and white and about a foot tall, |
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