MrWalker wrote:I would be surprised if the wild birds teach the released ones how to migrate.
Maybe the released ones will convince the wild ones there is no need to leave the area because someone will always turn up with some birdseed.
oldpiscator wrote:"It is hoped predictions for wetter conditions will boost seed supplies in South Australia and Victoria where the birds spend winter.
Long road ahead" Don't know whose prediction this is but we are going through one of our driest springs on record here in Geelong (some of the parrots spend winter here at Avalon), grain crops are failing and BOM forecasts are for dry conditions.
Overlandman wrote:About half of the wild population is male and the other half female
Around 64 wild parrots flew out of their single Tasmanian breeding colony this autumn for Victorian coastal wintering grounds. Of those, 27 were captive-bred and released last summer, an annual report said.
Evidence of the disease is said to have been found at the Melaleuca breeding colony in the south-west wilderness five months ago.
Obvious clinical signs were discovered in January in two precious clutches, each of four nestlings, hatched at Melaleuca, Fairfax Media has been told.
The nestlings were listless and shedding feathers when they were inspected. However no treatment was given, and their nest boxes were not revisited.
They are believed to have died, reducing the true count of migrating birds. At least one sick adult was also seen at a Melaleuca feeding table.
Overlandman wrote:Mark Holdsworth, a wildlife biologist and former leader of the orange-bellied parrot national recovery team...
Nuts wrote:I doubt a regular burning regime, to enhance/maintain this altered habitat, can ever be realistically a part of P&W operations.
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