1: Reply-to: <fimir@ncats.newaygo.mi.us> From: "Frank Murray" <fimir@ncats.newaygo.mi.us> To: <colemana@nsu001.northern.edu> Subject: tasmanian hens Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 09:50:26 -0400
Wow, there is a site for everything on the web! I worked on Maria Island for about 6 weeks with the hens and grew to consider them family on that lonely island. It's good to see they get the recognition they so rightly deserve. The hens there are doing well (if a bit inbred). They are spreading over the entire island and there must be something like 150 or so individuals running amok. Too bad some tourists like to torment them with knives and rocks. It seems a limiting factor in dispersal may be availability of fresh water. They guard their territories well around a stream resulting in a good fracas with rival territories every now and then. Pretty entertaining when your excitement level is watching the ferry dock. If you are really interested in the hens, Dr. Anne Goldizen has been doing research on their breeding behavior for a while now (I don't know if she published yet though).
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Date: Tue, 9 Dec
1997 10:30:29 +1100
To:
colemana@nsu001.northern.edu
From: Jonathan
Baell <J.Baell@molsci.csiro.au>
Subject: native hen sound file?
Hello Adam
It was fantastic to find a Tasmanian Native Hen homepage, because ......
As a Tasmanian, I was recently describing to a disbelieving Danish friend
the sound that a Tasmanian Native Hen makes. As a result, we
have a bet on
it (a pint of Guiness), but I cannot find a sound file of its call
on the
'net to prove the point. Any pointers (it would be a great thing
to have
on the tnh home page)? I head back to Tassie for the summer holidays,
where I guess I can attempt to tape its call, but by then the Danish
fellow
will be reunited with his motherland.
ta
jonathan