Orientation of Entrances to Woodpecker Nest Cavities

Aberdares.Thousands of Agapornis are held in transit in Nairobi each year for the export market, and the dealers admit loss by escapes.I feel it is hardly possible that such a conspicuous species as A. fischeri could have been overlooked so many years by ornithologists such as J. P. Benson and Col. R. Meinertzhagen, who collected over years in the Meru-Isiolo areas.For the birds to turn up suddenly in a most unlikely environment, having "jumped" some 350 miles across hostile terrain seems hardly credible.Nevertheless it is remarkable that these new feral populations have been able to adapt to a very diverse range of conditions, coastal to Kenya highlands, where hitherto they were unknown.The evidence against the specimen taken in Kenya being a natural wild bird is far too great, and it is my contention that the specimen from Isiolo does not constitute "an addition to the avifauna of Kenya" and the record cannot stand or be accepted.