Excellent comments from Chris here....
Alan
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> Birding-Aus readers may like to know that Peregrines are in fact
> resident in Sydney and are reported to Birdline weekly. We have a
> policy though of not publising them due to persecution from pigeon
> racers. All records are collated for the records though.
>
> A few years ago a letter was published in a major newspaper from a
> pigeon club stating how peregrines were "introduced by man to
> Australia and should therefore be exterminated". We all know this is
> wrong of course.
>
> However the point is that we have to keep tight lipped about the
> numbers of Peregrines out there. So please be careful if this thread
> develops.
>
> The Sydney Morning Herald regularly mentions how someone saw a "poor
> defenceless" Gull/Pigeon plucked from mid air over a Sydney street!
>
>
> Chris Gladwin
> Sydney, Australia
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