Hello all.... I was just wondering if any one is aware of any feral junglefowl
populations around iluka in nsw? I have been staying at Yamba for a couple of
days and this morning after visiting the iluka rainforest drove down to the
shark bay picnic ground. As I got out of the car I could hear a rooster calling
somewhere in the scrub and given the distance from any houses and the dense
habitat I was quite amazed to hear this. After a ten minute search I found
myself peering through the scrub at one very shy red junglefowl. I don't know
if people feed these chooks but the one I saw behaved very much like a wild
bird. As for this wayward roosters genetics I can only say it looked nearly
identical to the photos I manage to bring up on a google search of the species.
I can only find reference to feral populations on heron and north west island.
So my question to anyone in the know is could this bird be a legit feral tick?
Or has somebodys prized red
junglefowl gone for an awful long walk? If anything it will go down as the
most spectacular rooster I've ever seen.....
Johno
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