At 15:05 16/12/1998 +1000, Richard Loyn wrote:
>On Sunday 13 Dec. a male Golden Pheasant fled across a track into thinned
>pine plantations near Heywood in SW Victoria. It was obviously wild, not a
>recent escapee. (I have seen a recent escapee near Melbourne, and it was
>tame.) This species is feral in pines in Europe, so I wonder if the same
>could be true here. Any comment? Thanks, Richard.
Richard - and others -
My only comment is - please record it for the Atlas project, as an
incidental sighting if nothing else. We need these records to track the
establishment and spread (or non-establishment, for that matter) of
introduced species.
Cheers, Hugo.
Hugo Phillipps,
Birds Australia Conservation & Liaison,
Australian Bird Research Centre,
415 Riversdale Road,
Hawthorn East, VIC 3123, Australia.
Tel: (03) 9882 2622. Fax: (03) 9882 2677.
O/s: +61 3 9882 2622. Fax: +61 3 9882 2677.
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