They should feel right at home with all the Melaleuca quinquenervia.
Carl Clifford
On 16/05/2009, at 7:33 AM, Katrina Knight wrote:
At 03:21 PM 05/15/2009 Peter Shute wrote:
I can't really imagine anyone taking swamphens there deliberately,
less so accidentally.
For what it is worth, swamphens got accidentally introduced in south
Florida in the USA in the 1990s. As I remember the story, someone was
keeping several of them and along came a hurricane that let them go.
They've been multiplying and spreading. State game wardens spent 2-1/2
years trying to eradicate them, killing about 3,200 of them. They
recently gave up. They estimate that the current population is
2,000-3,000 birds. So evidently, it doesn't take much of an
introduction to get a good population of them going.
--
Katrina Knight
Reading, PA, USA
===============================
www.birding-aus.org
birding-aus.blogspot.com
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message:
unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to:
===============================
===============================
www.birding-aus.org
birding-aus.blogspot.com
To unsubscribe from this mailing list,
send the message:
unsubscribe
(in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to:
===============================
|
