RE: Amateur question on Terra Nova

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

On Thu, Oct 6th, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Anthony Docimo <keenir@hotmail.com> wrote:

> like you, I'm confused about that as well.  it's possible, i suppose, that 
> they weren't
> fossilized because of their mountain nesting sites at the _Terra Nova_ base 
> camp...but then they
> go to the beaches until the next breeding season, so that's a problem with 
> that theory.
>  
> (though if their last breeding season was found ten feet down, doesn't that 
> mean they don't breed
> often?  or that the base camp was built on landslide territory?)

Some Australian birds of prey in arid areas will only breed once every ten 
years or so (whenever 
the rains come, and result in rat eruptions). I seem to recall that some 
species of shore birds 
(oyster catchers I think) only breed when Lake Eyre fills with water (by the 
same rains that allow 
the raptors to breed).

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Dann Pigdon
Spatial Data Analyst               Australian Dinosaurs
Melbourne, Australia               http://home.alphalink.com.au/~dannj
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