To escape screeching , dive-bombing Plovers.
Forced back several times, under attack young Coucal finally managed to head for the tall timber on Magnetic Island . A Darwin correspondent , Bob White, informs us that there are three pair of Plovers outside the Parap Bottle Shop, another two pair outside the Hearing Clinic carpark , who give passers- by the hurry up . He has dubbed them The Security Guards.
