School kids too often rely on external regulation to modify their behaviour,
ie parents, police officers, teachers or other adults . If there's no
supervision such behaviour occurs.
My young semi-traditional relatives living on outstations learn very early
on to regulate their own behaviour, that is until they're placed in school.
There, they begin to learn their social mores from other kids.
Denise
on 16/2/08 6:18 AM, inger vandyke at wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Sadly dogs aren't the only worries for Bush Stone Curlews.
>
> As an occasional carer for wild birds in North Queensland it saddened me to
> see more than just the isolated case of a bush stone curlew being injured by
> humans.
>
> The worst case I heard of? A group of primary school kids took it upon
> themselves to 'stone' a nesting female curlew which left her blind, wounded
> and unable to look after her newly hatched chicks. All of them died in the
> end.
>
> Why in the world would anyone do that?
>
> People are selfish in that they complain about the noise these birds make at
> night. Their series of haunting whistles is an iconic sound of the forest in
> parts of North Queensland. Perhaps this bird woke someone up at night?
> Justification for that type of treatment? I think not. I was appalled.
>
> This incident occurred around 12 or so years ago on the Northern Beaches of
> Cairns where Bush Stone Curlews have taken to nesting in people's garden beds
> including mine which has always made me happy. To walk through a resort in
> Palm Cove and see a nesting curlew in the mulch is lovely. They camouflage
> themselves well, but obviously not well enough for some to seek them out and
> hurt them.
>
> I wonder that the increase in dog ownership on the Northern Beaches hasn't
> affected more of them as no matter how good they are able to camouflage
> themselves, dogs will find them simply out of smell.
>
> It is such a shame to see a really charismatic bird targeted on several
> fronts. Inger Vandyke Natural History Writer and Photographer Publicity
> Officer - Southern Oceans Seabird Study Association (SOSSA) Mob: 0402 286 437
> www.ingervandyke.com > Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:56:28 +1100> Subject: Re:
> [Birding-Aus] Bush stone curlew in Five Dock> From:
> > To: > > Hello,> > Tragic
> story, hardly atypical. As anyone with half an eye can attest,> this happens
> every ten minutes and more across the continent (and much> further afield of
> course). Sadly most twitchers are not there to witness> such events.> >
> Council environment officers being in a position to actually police the>
> actions of dog owners is probably a fantasy that belongs deep in the past,> if
> there ever was a time when such an idea was a possibility.> > Dogs and their
> owners OWN the continent effectively: in the Hunter region,> for example, they
> occupy every single space, from bushland to parkland,> beaches to national
> parks and of course their own little ³private²> off-leash areas. Nothing is
> "policed" and probably never was: yet we have> people like Adrian Franklin and
> many more academics asserting that the> "eco-nationalists" are waging a war
> that might best be described as> "species-cleansing" based on their
> ecologicaly fascistic fantasies.> > Funny old world.> > cheers> > Craig>
> Hunter region> > > > Alistair et al> >> > Perhaps in situations like this we
> should be more "proactive" (I hate that> > word). We could have alerted
> Council's environment officer when the bird> > turned up and alerted him/her
> to the danger of dog attack. Then a ranger> > may have been posted to police
> dogs off leashes (against the law except in> > some areas). Wise in hindsight
> but a lesson for the future maybe.> > Apologies in advance to anyone who may
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