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Potential new game bird?
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:56 pm
by Christel
Re: Potential new game bird?
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:56 pm
by barney57
Theres a Pub on the edge of the training area on Salisbury Plain called the Bustard,, been in there a few times...
Re: Potential new game bird?
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:01 pm
by dromia
I have a pal and his surname is Bustard.
Re: Potential new game bird?
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:05 pm
by Mike357
If there on Salisbury Plain they will have probably been eaten by druids, soldiers or blown to bits by tanks.
What size shot would you need in your 12 bore for one of those bad boys?
Re: Potential new game bird?
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:29 pm
by Robin128
Wales is full of them.
Never herad of the pill.
Re: Potential new game bird?
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:58 pm
by ovenpaa
Mike357 wrote:What size shot would you need in your 12 bore for one of those bad boys?
Hmm.. well on the grounds it is like a flying donkey something large would be needed.
A Bofors springs to mind...
Re: Potential new game bird?
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:48 pm
by zzr1100
goalkeeper CIWS ?
Re: Potential new game bird?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:51 am
by 25Pdr
barney57 wrote:
Theres a Pub on the edge of the training area on Salisbury Plain called the Bustard,, been in there a few times...
Me too....Only had egg and chips I'm afraid. :)
Re: Potential new game bird?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:03 am
by Chapuis
I don't know why it is in the news because there have been several attempts over the last 30 years to reintroduce the bustard to Salisbury plain. On each occasion they have failed to breed or foxes have taken the chicks in the nest and the birds have just died out again.
Re: Potential new game bird?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:23 pm
by Christel
It is in the news again because the project has just been given a lot on money to continue the reintroduction of the birds.
Chicks were hatched last year with success and frankly I am all for trying to get them to breed successfully on Salisbury Plain because the natural habitat elsewhere in the world is getting smaller every day due to pollution and habitat fragmentation. Salisbury Plain is ideal for the birds, well they used to live there so that must mean something.
If the population is small then the chances of survival are small, foxes will take them etc. If we can introduce enough for the population to be viable then great, another asset in the UK wildlife.
I do not think biologically that it will change much nor be a threat for the already established wildlife, they have been here before.