Oryctolagus cuniculus

European Rabbit at Hackett, ACT

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Oryctolagus cuniculus	29 Mar 2021	Avery
Oryctolagus cuniculus	29 Mar 2021	DonFletcher
Oryctolagus cuniculus	29 Mar 2021	DonFletcher
Unidentified	29 Mar 2021	Avery

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Substantial warren with 4 or more holes that would merit destruction, I think (also all your needs for horenound can be met here!)

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DonFletcher wrote:

29 Mar 2021

Thanks Avery, You can enter the species ID by clicking the button below 'Category 1'.

I will pass this report to the person in PCS who is preparing to do some rabbit control at Mt Ainslie, but I think this warren is just outside the planned control operation

Avery wrote:

29 Mar 2021

Unfortunately there seem to be two definitions of the boundary between Ainslie and Majura, either Blue Metal road, or Hancock's road. My impression is that most weed/pest control work uses the latter one.

DonFletcher wrote:

29 Mar 2021

the operation is between Philip Ave and the
ainslie summit rd

waltraud wrote:

30 Mar 2021

I reported this particular warren a number of times to PCS. I also hand weeded horehound a couple of times at the site however continuous disturbance and huge soil seed bank renders the weeding efforts a hopeless undertaking.

Avery wrote:

30 Mar 2021

Hopefully it is not a complete waste of time to take out the thistles there, tho they have dropped a huge amount of loose seeds.

Avery wrote:

30 Mar 2021

They're using Pindone on the rabbits, I can't remember if that is the one that is especially bad for the Rosenberg's monitors, but hopefully they'll be brumating now and not looking for baby rabbits to eat.

DonFletcher wrote:

30 Mar 2021

Avery, they will stop eating soon or may have done so already, in preparation for brumation. 1080 is a rabbit agent that does no harm to goannas but it is super deadly to dogs so PCS generally doesn't use it at all in Ainslie-Majura, or at least not within half a km of housing. The only test result I've seen for Pindone toxicity in a reptile suggests it too would do no harm to goannas. One author has even posited that reptiles may store large enough quantities of anti-coagulant pesticides (obtained by eating poisoned animals) that the reptiles are a risk to predators that eat them, which includes humans in places where people eat goannas. However so-called 'first generation' anti-coagulants, like Pindone, dont accumulate well, so he was probably referring mainly to the 2nd generation ones found in mouse and rat baits.

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