Julie
What wonderful visitors you have!
Cape Barren Geese are making a good recovery from their use as a food
source by early explorers, sealers and whalers and just about everyone else
until it was realised that they were on the brink of extinction. They are
now classed as vulnerable but the population is quite large thanks to
breeding programs, re-introductions and their liking for agricultural
pastures.
Their normal range is the Bass Strait islands and the coastal areas of
Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania although they have been introduced
to places like Bool Lagoon in South Australia that are some way from the
coast. There is also a sub-species found in the Recherche Archipelago off
Western Australia.
Pearcedale is probably within their normal range now but may not have been
a suitable environment for them before land clearing took place.
You can learn more about them from the Birds in Backyards website:
http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/finder/display.cfm?id=208
Regards
David
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[Birding-Aus] cape barron geese
18/08/08 06:37 PM
We have on our farm a pair of cape barron geese that have arrived and made
them selfs very happy
there is two of them we are in pearcedale vic 3912 just wonderd where they
are from are they wild or have we someones escaped pets thks julie
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