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Hi there
I
don't normally enter the introduced birds debate, but I believe the Rottnest
peacocks (as opposed to peahens) were recently sterilised or culled; as I
understand it their status as a wild/feral population was always dubious as they
are basically tame birds (cafe scavengers) and their reproductive output hasn't
been quantified.
Having recently moved to Canberra I was intrigued by the Narrabundah
peafowl and from what I've learned they would qualify as a genuine feral
population!
regards
David Andrew
Migratory Birds Taskforce
Department of the Environment, Water,
Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA)
GPO Box 787
Canberra ACT 2601
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 (0)2 6274
1879
www.environment.gov.au
Barbara,
Peafowl are feral on
Rottnest Island off Perth and
these are, as far as I am aware, the only “genuine” feral population in
Australia and are considered
“tick-able” for the Australian list if you are using Christidis and Boles as
your Australian authority. I have no doubts that there are other feral
populations in Australia and indeed feel that the
Narrabundah birds, because they are a self sustaining population, could and
probably should qualify as a tick-able feral population. When I was working at
CSIRO years ago a colleague told me of a female Peafowl he saw in Monga (then)
State
Forest with 9 chicks. To
the best of his knowledge there was no housing within
miles.
Mark
From: Barbara Preston
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Sent: Monday, 8 February 2010 10:47
AM
To: Philip Veerman; 'Peter
Ormay'
Cc: 'Canberra
Birds'
Subject: [canberrabirds]
Re: Spam:******, [canberrabirds] Peafowl update
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))
Sent: Monday,
February 08, 2010 1:02 AM
Subject:
Spam:******, [canberrabirds] Peafowl
update
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.
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From: Peter Ormay
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Sent: Sunday, 7 February 2010 12:55
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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?
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