None at all, I'd reckon Walter. The distance they would have had to fly
from the nearest land is 580 km and that is from Australia, and they didn't
even island hop to there.
Cheers
Syd
> From: Walter Knapp <>
> Reply-To:
> Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:24:20 -0500
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Lord Howe Island rainforest
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> From: Syd Curtis <>
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>> That comment caught my eye, for I was saddened to hear roosters sounding=
off
>> in the rainforest on Lord Howe Island.
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> Is there any chance these were the original chickens, the Gray Jungle
> Fowl, I believe? They are native in SE asia, but I don't know how far
> out they go from there. As I understand it, the rooster call has not
> changed much from when they were wild birds.
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> Walt
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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