https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-14/fresh-hope-for-malleefowl-on-brink-of-collapse/100822888
I was out there yesterday afternoon. Nobody has been along that road since I was there in October.roughbarked said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-14/fresh-hope-for-malleefowl-on-brink-of-collapse/100822888 I was out there yesterday afternoon. Nobody has been along that road since I was there in October.
Ta for that. Quoting from article:
mollwollfumble said:
roughbarked said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-14/fresh-hope-for-malleefowl-on-brink-of-collapse/100822888 I was out there yesterday afternoon. Nobody has been along that road since I was there in October.Ta for that. Quoting from article:
Just part of the world we are remaking. Without us, the feral animals would not be there.
My question is…
its all well and good to gather and incubate eggs
but these aren’t barnyard fowl
without a mother to teach them how to survive
in the wild how will they get on?
…Is there still hope in their future?
Ogmog said:
My question is…
its all well and good to gather and incubate eggs
but these aren’t barnyard fowl
without a mother to teach them how to survive
in the wild how will they get on?
…Is there still hope in their future?
I don’t know anything about them but this is Wiki’s precis of them.
“The malleefowl is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken. It is notable for the large nesting mounds constructed by the males and lack of parental care after the chicks hatch. Wikipedia”
Ogmog said:
My question is…
its all well and good to gather and incubate eggs
but these aren’t barnyard fowl
without a mother to teach them how to survive
in the wild how will they get on?
…Is there still hope in their future?
i’d need look it up but as recall mallee fowl can look after themselves quite soon after emerge, they need push there way out up through the whatever to get to the surface, which is quite an effort, think I was amazed when read whatever, by memory
transition said:
Ogmog said:
My question is…
its all well and good to gather and incubate eggs
but these aren’t barnyard fowl
without a mother to teach them how to survive
in the wild how will they get on?
…Is there still hope in their future?
i’d need look it up but as recall mallee fowl can look after themselves quite soon after emerge, they need push there way out up through the whatever to get to the surface, which is quite an effort, think I was amazed when read whatever, by memory
…push their way…
just in case my English teacher is reading this
Peak Warming Man said:
Ogmog said:
My question is…
its all well and good to gather and incubate eggs
but these aren’t barnyard fowl
without a mother to teach them how to survive
in the wild how will they get on?
…Is there still hope in their future?
I don’t know anything about them but this is Wiki’s precis of them.
“The malleefowl is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken. It is notable for the large nesting mounds constructed by the males and lack of parental care after the chicks hatch. Wikipedia”
You sure they aren’t meteorites?
poikilotherm said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Ogmog said:
My question is…
its all well and good to gather and incubate eggs
but these aren’t barnyard fowl
without a mother to teach them how to survive
in the wild how will they get on?
…Is there still hope in their future?
I don’t know anything about them but this is Wiki’s precis of them.
“The malleefowl is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken. It is notable for the large nesting mounds constructed by the males and lack of parental care after the chicks hatch. Wikipedia”
You sure they aren’t meteorites?
… meteroite craters.
Peak Warming Man said:
Ogmog said:
My question is…
its all well and good to gather and incubate eggs
but these aren’t barnyard fowl
without a mother to teach them how to survive
in the wild how will they get on?
…Is there still hope in their future?
I don’t know anything about them but this is Wiki’s precis of them.
“The malleefowl is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken. It is notable for the large nesting mounds constructed by the males and lack of parental care after the chicks hatch. Wikipedia”
cool
because every chick I’ve encountered
can’t even pick up an insect at it’s feet
without mum cramming it down their gullet
much less how to evade hungry predators
Ogmog said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Ogmog said:
My question is…
its all well and good to gather and incubate eggs
but these aren’t barnyard fowl
without a mother to teach them how to survive
in the wild how will they get on?
…Is there still hope in their future?
I don’t know anything about them but this is Wiki’s precis of them.
“The malleefowl is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken. It is notable for the large nesting mounds constructed by the males and lack of parental care after the chicks hatch. Wikipedia”
cool
because every chick I’ve encountered
can’t even pick up an insect at it’s feet
without mum cramming it down their gullet
much less how to evade hungry predators
Well the evading hungry predators thing is the real problem here.
roughbarked said:
Ogmog said:
Peak Warming Man said:I don’t know anything about them but this is Wiki’s precis of them.
“The malleefowl is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken. It is notable for the large nesting mounds constructed by the males and lack of parental care after the chicks hatch. Wikipedia”
cool
because every chick I’ve encountered
can’t even pick up an insect at it’s feet
without mum cramming it down their gullet
much less how to evade hungry predators
Well the evading hungry predators thing is the real problem here.
perhaps unrelated:
I was watching a flock of small birds feeding in my yard, noticing
every other moment they’d all fly up as one into the grape arbor,
and I thought, this nervous action is the very definition of “flighty”.
This went on for about 15 minutes when I noticed one little bird that
didn’t fly off, but continued to feed alone and thought, “Good for you,
there’s a brave little fellow.” when in the next instant a hawk swooped
down and grabbed him. Then I thought; “Ah! Darwin’s Law in Action!
That’s one little fellow that won’t live to father more ‘Brave Little Birds’.
Ogmog said:
roughbarked said:
Ogmog said:cool
because every chick I’ve encountered
can’t even pick up an insect at it’s feet
without mum cramming it down their gullet
much less how to evade hungry predators
Well the evading hungry predators thing is the real problem here.
perhaps unrelated:
I was watching a flock of small birds feeding in my yard, noticing
every other moment they’d all fly up as one into the grape arbor,
and I thought, this nervous action is the very definition of “flighty”.
This went on for about 15 minutes when I noticed one little bird that
didn’t fly off, but continued to feed alone and thought, “Good for you,
there’s a brave little fellow.” when in the next instant a hawk swooped
down and grabbed him. Then I thought; “Ah! Darwin’s Law in Action!
That’s one little fellow that won’t live to father more ‘Brave Little Birds’.
No one told him that the sky was falling.
