Thanks for all the comments from people concerning the Blue-bills at the FSW. I gather that Peter Fullagar will be meeting with the person who released them in the near future so hopefully we will have a date. I have a vague recollection that the birds were released in the late 1970’s, early 80’s but could be wrong.
To answer the question posed by Philip as to why this has only been brought up over the last three weeks, I, as well as Peter and Chris and several former staff members from CSIRO “Wildlife”, have known about this for years, it is only when I went down to check that they were still there three weeks ago and found that they were “missing” that I brought the matter up. Anyone who knows me knows that I am not in the habit of making things up. We also know that there are dodgy breeding records in the local area but I do gather that these birds on the FSW have bred.
Mark
