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Default Arboreal - Tree Nesting Termites in Brisbane

You may have noticed large mud nests in trees as shown adjacent.

Sometimes when the termites have moved on birds peck out the interior and a small entrance hole for a nesting box.

The termites are called Nasutitermes walkeri more ....
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Default Re: Arboreal - Tree Nesting Termites in Brisbane

Mud nests are also constructed by Magpie-Larks (or Pee-Wees).
Pizzey (Field Guide to Birds of Aust.) states habitat is anywhere there are trees and mud for nest building: trees by rivers, wetlands; widespread in urban areas but absent in waterless deserts and dense forests. Geographically widespread, all states excepting inland WA.

Here are some pics of a nest here in the Illawarra, amongst Casuarina glauca woodland on low-lying (infilled) lagoon area ...in from Towradgi Beach.

This nest is "in use".
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Another Pee-Wee mud nest...this time on Eucalypt branch (E.longifolia-Woollybutt) on Towradgi Creek, Wollongong.
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