On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 03:35:56 +1000, len brauer
wrote:

g'day trish,

i'd be looking to loss of habitat for the raptor decline.

Almost certainly.

I have a black shouldered kite in the bush corridor behind my house.
It's amazing to watch it hovering on the off chance that a mouse may
stick its head out.

Unfortunately, that bush corridor is going to become first a
construction site and then a freeway in a year or so. Farewell birds.
I can provide habitat for the parrots, but not for a raptor.

Tara