G'day Dave,
I think the folk at DSE should be commended in this instance for a job well
done with a minimum of fuss, if only the Adelaide crew could do the same.
It's up to birders to report these Doves while still in small family groups
to the appropriate authorities, how else are they going to know.
I hope our South Australian friends are still pushing for action over there
and have noted how easy it was to remove the Williamstown birds.
Cheers Jeff.
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From:
On Behalf Of Dave Torr
Sent: Friday, 22 January 2010 4:59 PM
To: John Tongue
Cc: Peter Menkhorst;
Subject: call of the Barbary Dove
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.
> >
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