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What's the root cause? Not enough birds of prey?
by vidanay 6y ago
What's the root cause? Not enough birds of prey?
- stan_rogers 6y agoThe introduction of mice is the root cause. They're not an indigenous species.
- femto 6y agoAlso the ready food supply provided by the widespread growing of grains. The plague is restricted to grain growing areas, and it's been a bumper Australian crop this year.
- Y_Y 6y agoToo many mice.
- stubish 6y agoThe birds of prey don't seem to like living near people. Rabbits are plentiful and food for foxes, mice hit plague proportions in farming communities, but the eagle, hawk, falcon and owl numbers don't seem to increase to match. Other birds not so much, where we have an order of magnitude more smaller birds in our garden compared to the nearby bush land (both native and introduced).
- bjowen 6y agoAlso the serial poisoning of birds of prey - prosecutions in Tubbut and Violet Town and reports of it being more widespread.