Hi Jeff,
There might be more fighting birds around than we know about seeing as
cock fighting is illegal. When I was with AQIS, people were regularly
nabbed trying to bring in fighting bird eggs or chicks. One guy was
caught with a quarter grown bird, fortunately sedated, stuffed down
his trouser leg.
I know the fighting birds are much more leggy than the average back
yard chook, but I was wondering how many generations in it would take
in for that and other domesticated bird characteristics to disappear
in the wild.
The first sighting I had of a bird I could fairly confidently tick as
a RJF was at the back of an army camp near Poert Dickson, Malaysia and
the best sighting was of a rooster, a couple of hens and a brood of
chicks, in the forest beside the shore at the southern end of Lake
Temmengor, in Perak, Malaysia. The people in the Orang Asli village I
was staying at there were running RJF as domestics. They would raid
the nests of RJF in the forest and stick the eggs under an old layer
to build up the flocks. I didn't tick them.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 09/08/2009, at 1:31 PM, Jeff Davies wrote:
G'day Carl,
Domestic fighting cocks and there are couple of breeds have
ridiculously big
legs and can't be confused with Red Jungle Fowl, they are not widely
kept.
There would be more domestic Bantams that look like Jungle Fowl in
Australia
than fighting cocks.
I am interested to know location details about the sightings of
Jungle Fowl
you claim.
Cheers Jeff.
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