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Susan, I'd never heard of Cowbirds until you just mentioned it, so I did some reading: WOW! They're not even in the cuckoo family, and they seem a lot more aggressive than the average cuckoo.

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Two or three years ago Australia had some widespread and truly horrendous bushfires, which engulfed almost every part of the continent, if not with fire then with smoke, and many people died of smoke-related problems like asthma.
Then it was discovered that entire communities of animal life had been wiped out, to the extent that koalas were placed on the vulnerable list. In some areas including my own region, they went locally extinct, and the more sensationalist media screamed about koalas going completely extinct in the wild.
A huge scientific programme was brought to bear, with people coming from all over the world including the USA to work on the problem, but I really disliked the way they brought the few koalas they found, to the ground in nets suspended below, to weigh, measure and ear tag the animals: It must've been so stressful.
Then they said that sightings of koalas should be reported to a hotline.

Koala number must be increasing, because for a couple of months now we've had a family of koalas living on and around our 5 acre property - a male, female, and joey.
I see them quite a lot, including the male bellowing when he's in rut.
"Science" wants me to call the hotline and report them, but that would mean a team of people racing here to pull the marsupials to the ground and measure and tag them.
No way, sez I.
This is one koala family that will not be harassed. They can live here in peace.

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