Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!cluster!andrewt From: andrewt@cs.su.oz (Andrew Taylor) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Are oriole "feeders" fakes? Message-ID: <2476@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> Date: 29 May 91 08:01:51 GMT References: <1991May27.163904.25487@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Sender: news@cluster.cs.su.oz.au Reply-To: andrewt@cluster.cs.su.oz (Andrew Taylor) Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia Lines: 12 In article <1991May27.163904.25487@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> drintoul@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (David A Rintoul) writes: > In Australia and New Zealand local bird-feeders actually fill long shallow > trays with sugar water to attract the many species of honeyeaters that live > there; I suspect that the same sort of device could attract our orioles ... Given the opportunity, honeyeaters will quite readily use hummingbird feeders (which aren't available here). Feeding honeyeaters is uncommon here. Much more popular is planting flowering shrubs, such as Grevilleas, which attract honeyeaters. Certainly a better approach for honeyeaters, dunno about orioles. Andrew Taylor