An afternoon in Maitland & Newcastle 22 Feb 2011

["Greg & Val Clancy" <>]

Hi David and others,

I often joke when I hear that the Hunter Twitchaton teams tick the Shortland 
Magpie Geese that they are 'captive-bred mongrel stock' and are a 
questionable tick, as I understand that they were released there in the 
early 1980s.  I was very disappointed with the release as it made monitoring 
the natural recolonisation of the state impossible.
They are tickable though if they have bred successfully locally which I 
suspect that they have.
Greg Clancy
Ecologist
Coutts Crossing
NSW