RFI Barbary Dove - Bayside Melbourne

["Peter Shute" <>]

 wrote on Friday, 8 February 2008 12:44
PM:

> My hypothesis, given the annual pattern of records and the
> very confiding behaviour of many of the birds (approachable
> to 1 metre), is that there isn't even a "population", merely
> birds regularly released by some idiot.
>
> We know one person who was planning to release birds in
> another area of Bayside back in 1998 and hope we dissuaded
> him (one bird was at liberty in that area in 2000).

Did they say why they intended to do that?

Peter Shute
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