In Melbourne they are urban birds at a few well known locations so that
should be pretty easy - although I guess people might keep releasing them. I
guess the key is to get them before they get too established - which will
probably take about 6 months less than the average government bureaucracy
response time (sorry - was that cynical?)
2010/1/22 John Tongue <>
> 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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