Peafowl & Pheasant

All the peahens were removed from Rottnest around 4 years ago and there are currently 3 peacocks remaining with no plans to remove them. The pheasant seem to be increasing, possibly in response to last cat being removed in 2004. I have also been working with the local ranger and the Bold Park bird banding group to remove the introduced Rainbow Lorikeets from the island. Happy to report that the last one was removed in October this year. Mark ________________________________________ From: birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au [birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au] On Behalf Of Bob Dawson [bobadawson@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 1 December 2013 9:11 PM To: birding-aus Subject: [Birding-Aus] Peafowl & Pheasant Hi Folks There was some discussion recently about some introduced species and whether they were considered tickable or not. It got me thinking about a sighting of Peafowl on Rottnest Island in August 2003. I believe at one stage there was a self sustaining population there. Then some time ago all the females were removed to stop them from breeding. Does anyone know whether this is correct and when the females were removed? I also noted seeing Common Pheasant there. Can anyone give me any info regarding there population there please? Cheers Bob =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org =============================== =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================