Re: Spam:******, [canberrabirds] Peafowl update

["Barbara Preston" <>]

Have peafowls ever been known to become feral?

Lots of country folk have had them over the last century or so. I've seen them in old photos, and my parents had them (almost always a breeding pair) for 30+ years in their large garden 30k from the nearest town, but I did not ever know of the peafowls leaving the garden (and small ajoining horse/roo paddock).

(After my mother died a few years ago my father got sick of their honking/hooting/squwarking and cleaning up their droppings from the paving beside the house and shot them (an adult pair and a couple of young males at the time, I think))

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Subject: Spam:******, [canberrabirds] Peafowl update

Hello Peter,

 

You may be right but who knows. Surely there are many foxes and feral cats and raptors and dogs, not to mention still some tigers which will certainly eat them, where peafowl are native. They are likely to be adapted to high predation rates, so what we have here will probably be little problem for them.

 

Philip.  

 

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From: Peter Ormay [
Sent: Sunday, 7 February 2010 12:55 PM
To: John Layton; 'Vikki'; 'Geoffrey Dabb';
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Peafowl update

Peafowl is one species I would not be concerned about becoming a nuisance feral in Australia. I don't think they would stand a snowflakes chance in hell surviving outside the built-up area with so many foxes and feral cats about.  I'm surprised that chicks have survived in suburbia there. I suspect they go from dog free yard to dog free yard over fences and some people feed them.  Do any COG members live in the area and know if they are fed?

 

Peter Ormay