Would be very interested to hear how they go about 'removing them'. We have
been working in conjunction with a government agency here in northern Tassie to
'remove' Rainbow Lorikeets, but with no success to date.
John Tongue
Ulverstone, Tas.
On 22/01/2010, at 4:16 PM, Peter Menkhorst wrote:
> Peter Shute asked about the call of the Barbary Doves in the Williamstown
> area, Melbourne.
> I visited the site a week ago and made the following description of the call;
> a trisyllabic, rolling, somewhat high-pitched 'coo cooor-oo' with the
> emphasis on the middle syllable and a quality like a Scotsman rolling his
> 'rrrs' .
> It is readily distinguished from the equivalent call of the Spotted Dove
> which has four syllables - 'cor-cor-cooroo' with the emphasis on the final
> syllable. The Spotted Dove also gives a trisyllabic call which sounds to me
> like 'the Soccer-oos'. [for those who don't know that is the nickname for the
> Australian Soccer Team]
>
> Apologies if I am just confusing people - trying to explain these calls in
> words is not easy!
>
> We have know idea of the ancestry of these birds [Eurasian/African] but, as
> potential invasive pests, they are being removed by the Victorian Government.
>
> Peter Menkhorst
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