Thread: Time to re-introduce a paying for deer/goat tail scheme?

Pretty awesome that your sister has Kaka visiting her farm, shame that they beat her to the fruit but that's life, eh.

Those flappy birds sure do fly (and far) but when elevated lead is also being found in fledglings and juveniles (less than 1 year old) who are unlikely to have ventured far from the nest, it suggests looking for sources closer to home.

Lead isotope testing was undertaken using a variety of OTC ammo. Lead isotope signatures were found to differ between ammo and building flashing due to the source or origin USA, Australia, China etc.

There is correlation between the lead isotopes found in ammo and those found in Kea blood samples.

Personally, I have found the Naturalis Belmont ammo to be just as effective in 7-08. Would be good if they could also get a 140gr projectile so my POA stays the same as when using cheaper lead rounds in areas where scavenging birds aren't present.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

really.......who supplied the coolaid in that drinking fountain??? my sister lives in waikato on a dairy farm not far from puketurua..actually between there and the arapuni dam..she has fruit trees on the farm OLD OLD oldschool fruit called a cumquat??? its like an apricot with taste between that and carrot..every year just as the yripen KAKA turn up....thats a long way to fly from maungatautiri reserve but turn up they do. there might be no huts/lead head nails in area these kea were (caught and stuck with needle to get blood sample before being released?) living in at time of testing.
but sure as God made little green apples the flappy things on either side of those green parrots allow them to venture elsewhere.