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raven cull [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

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Subject: raven cull [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:30:12 +1100
That's what they should do to the roo's here but charge the shooters.  Make some money out of a sustainable resource, help an ecosystem and the overall environment all at the same time!
 
BTW there's a swan on a nest at Jerra over the river from the Boathouse restaurant and hospice or whatever is down there.  There's also about 10 less 10 to 20lb carp in the flooded billabongs/channels.  Someone else had left carp on the bank and the dead fish were covered in 1000's of European Wasps!!!!!  So I put mine back in the water for the turtles to munch on.  A few Blackies about and only one pair of Teal. 
 
Heard Orioles from over Kelly swamp way - seemed to be in those Hickory Wattles (A. implexa I think) around the big Banksia and Casuarinas looking over Crake Alley. Also heard a Grey butcherbird and the Black Faced Cuckoo Shrikes are still hanging out in the willows where they seem to love it for some reason.  Didn't hear a Grassbird, must have been concentrating on looking for carp, but there were heaps of Cisticolas as usual.  Plenty of honeyeaters moving and I thought I heard a White-naped mixed in but not 100% sure. 
 
Next time I'll remember my bins!!!!!!!
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Subject: [canberrabirds] raven cull


ARTICLE FROM THE POST, NEWSPAPER, SUBIACO WA (Mosman park is a suburb of Perth)

Public pressure could see the numbers of Mosman Park ravens shot by sharpshooters reduced from 75 to 25.

Mosman Park CEO Paul Anderson said the Department of Environment and Conservation was yet to issue a licence but had indicated it might reduce the number originally suggested (POST, 8/3).

He said he had received many complaints about the decision to cull the birds.

The council voted to discuss all written complaints sent to the shire at its meeting in April.

At its March meeting the council voted to ask gun clubs to shoot the ravens on Mosman Park golf course and in Buckland Hill.

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