Talk of birds disappearing from ponds reminds me of a story I read in a guide
to the Royal National Park. After the weir at Audley was built, people decided
that it would add to the atmosphere when paddling rowboats with one's partner
if there were swans on the lake.
Cygnets were released onto the lake, but they disappeared - victim apparently
to the local eels.
Rob
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Rob Geraghty
--- On Mon, 12/14/09, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:
> From: Geoffrey Dabb <>
> Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] Wotsit
> To:
> Date: Monday, December 14, 2009, 9:34 AM
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> That
> Steve is uncanny.
> Correct on all counts, and Denis got the half-point.
> This ex-tadpole has
> teeth and can swallow a grown rat, even if Gerald Durrell
> was a shade large.
> Whether for that reason or not, it is the emblem of Texas
> Christian University.
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> This
> worrying development is
> enough to make me spend a few keystrokes on a letter to the
> Canberra Times.
> What are our animal quarantine laws for if these chaps can
> just hop into a
> sewage pond in the nation’s capital and grab ducks at
> will?
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> From: Steve Holliday
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> Sent: Monday, 14 December 2009 8:14 AM
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> To: 'Geoffrey Dabb'
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> Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Wotsit
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> Blue-billed Duck? And
> a Horned Frog (Ceratophrys sp) from Sth America – I
> seem to recollect
> Gerald Durrell being bitten by one of these in one of his
> books on his animal
> collecting days. From memory, it hurt a lot! Sadly, we had
> no such luck when we
> were in Sth America.
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> From: Geoffrey Dabb
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> Sent: Sunday, 13 December 2009 10:30 AM
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> To: ; Alastair
> Smith
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> Subject: [canberrabirds] Wotsit
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> Over several years, speculation has
> continued about the
> periodic disappearance of ducks from some Canberra
> ponds. Some experts
> attribute this to an aquatic creature referred to for want
> of a better label as
> ‘the Duck-grabbing Frog’. ( It should be
> mentioned that there are
> others, called by some ‘Duck-grabbing Frog
> deniers’, who do not
> share this theory.) Now this unusual photograph
> provides convincing
> evidence to support the position of those who have believed
> in the frog.
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> To help the Canberra Times
> Environmental Reporter produce an
> accurate story can anyone name the frog and duck species
> shown here?
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