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Collecting pellets of Rainbow Bee-eaters surveillance method ... presenc

To: 'John Layton' <>, 'Canberra birds' <>
Subject: Collecting pellets of Rainbow Bee-eaters surveillance method ... presence of Asian Honey Bees
From: John Bundock <>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 08:09:57 +0000

See:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17463670

 

And for the NT:

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/134158117

 

 

John Bundock

0400249429

 

From: John Layton [
Sent: Monday, 1 August 2016 4:59 PM
To: Canberra birds
Subject: [canberrabirds] Collecting pellets of Rainbow Bee-eaters surveillance method ... presence of Asian Honey Bees

 

To go off on an ironical tangent, some years ago I read that in Queensland ( the land that gave us Kevin Rudd & Pauline Hanson) there was a bounty placed on Rainbow Bee-eaters. Reason given it was claimed they were decimating stocks of European Honey Bees.

 

John Layton

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