Pigeon-shooting

[Martin Butterfield via Canberrabirds <>]

Bronzewings would have been somewhat less plentiful on 26/2/1869 and for a while thereafter.

I am reminded of a report in the Emu of an expedition to Mallacoota in 1913 in which a fair number of birds switched demographic classification from 'live' to 'collected'.

Martin Butterfield

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On Sun, 3 Dec 2023 at 15:52, David McDonald (Personal) <> wrote:

Bronzewing pigeons were, apparently, plentiful in the Bungendore area:

 

 

Source: 'BUNGENDORE', Queanbeyan Age, 25 February 1869, p. 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30578843.

 

David

 

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