John
I suspect that the Turkeys were free ranging birds that had wandered off as
they were a couple of kilometres from any farm buildings. What I found
interesting was that their behaviour - maintaining a very close formation
rather than foraging independently - seemed more like that of wild birds
than domestic poultry.
David
John Tongue
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Re: [Birding-Aus] Coles Bay emu
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Hi David,
There is the odd Emu (Emoo) about the place, as you say, mostly 'retirees'
from various farming ventures. There are lots of feral Turkeys on King and
Flinders Islands, and the odd feral Peafowl and Pheasants in places on
mainland Tas. I hadn't come across Turkeys in that situation, though. Are
you sure they couldn't have belonged to a farm somewhere nearby?
John Tongue
Ulverstone, Tas.
On 31/03/2010, at 6:47 PM, wrote:
>
>
>
>
> I was talking to two young European tourists on the Freycinet Peninsula
> last week when one mentioned that she had seen an 'emoo' on the Coles Bay
> Road and showed me a photograph of it.
>
> We drove along Coles Bay Road later that day and, sure enough, there was
a
> lone emu wandering through the farmland on the east side of the road. I
> assume this bird is an escapee or retiree from the emu farm near Swansea.
>
> There was also a flock of very free ranging Wild Turkeys foraging along
the
> road reserve in the same area.
>
> David
>
>
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