I think that it's always useful to know whether a species is commonly kept
in aviculture. It's a matter of getting an idea of the probability that a
bird is an escapee. I would have thought that fruit eating pigeons would be
relatively difficult and less common in captivity. Of course there's always
zoos etc.
Steve Murray
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Alan McBride
Sent: Sunday, 19 April 2009 7:11 PM
To: Jon Irvine
Cc:
Subject: Pied Imperial Pigeon
It would naturally depend on "proving it". Even if they lost one how
would we now it was this one (unless banded of course)?
Refer Dave Torr's e-mail a while ago (tonight).
Alan
On 19/04/2009, at 6:50 PM, Jon Irvine wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Irvine
Sent: 19 April 2009 18:49
To: 'Greg & Val Clancy'
Subject: Pied Imperial Pigeon
Hi Alan,
I believe Auburn Botanical Gardens has some captive PIPs in their
aviary. It
would be a bit of a bummer if this bird was one of those!
Cheers,
Jono
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Greg & Val
Clancy
Sent: 19 April 2009 18:37
To: Alan McBride; Elizabeth Shaw
Cc: Birding Aus
Subject: Pied Imperial Pigeon
Hi Alan,
I raised the issue of the potential for this, and the earlier NSW
records of
the Pied Imperial Pigeon, to be cage escapes with Alan Morris and he
said
that the earlier records were accepted presumably indicating that they
were
considered wild birds and not cage escapes. Does anyone know that there
aren't captive Pied Imperial Pigeons in NSW?
Greg Clancy
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