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PETITION FOR FERETS QLD. PARLIAMENT

To: "Birding-aus" <>, "Marc Gardner" <>
Subject: PETITION FOR FERETS QLD. PARLIAMENT
From: "Mike" <>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:18:58 +1000
Dear Birding Aussers

        Marc asked....."Also aren't the ferrets in New Zealand called stoats - 
a wild/feral type that
> were deliberatly introduced and not the domestic type you get in Australia?"
>
>
>
>From my 12 years of teaching in NZ I experienced seeing and holding Stoats, 
>Weasels and Ferrets.  Even the pet ones would get very angry when a human 
>other than their owner approached.  Ground nesting birds such as ducks, and 
>burrowing seabirds and flightless birds such as Kakapo and Notornis all suffer 
>from depredation of these members of the Mustelid family.

There are lots of hunters in NZ and they through their acclimatisation 
societies have introduced not only these pests but also bird species to hunt.  
Examples are Red-legged Partridge, Canada Geese, Mallards and Californian 
Quail.  I didn't ever see them hunting redpolls, Green finches, Starlings, 
Common Mynas, Chaffinches, Hedge Sparrows, House Sparrows, Yellowhammers, Cirl 
Buntings, Goldfinches and the like but they introduced them any way.

Cheers

Mike

Dr Mike Tarburton
Dean: School of Science and Technology
Pacific Adventist University
PMB, Boroko
Papua New Guinea


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