Oryctolagus cuniculus
European Rabbit at Hackett, ACT
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| Oryctolagus cuniculus | Avery | 29 Mar 2021 | |
| Oryctolagus cuniculus | DonFletcher | 29 Mar 2021 | |
| Oryctolagus cuniculus | DonFletcher | 29 Mar 2021 | |
| Unverified | Avery | 29 Mar 2021 |
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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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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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.168548-35.257174
- Altitude 683.0m
- Places Hackett, ACT
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- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 29 Mar 2021 04:22 PM Recorded on
- Avery Recorded by
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- Oryctolagus cuniculus Scientific name
- European Rabbit Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Major weed or pest
- Up to 1909.02m Recorded at altitude
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