European Rabbit at Hackett, ACT
Identification history
| Oryctolagus cuniculus | 29 Mar 2021 | Avery | ||
| Oryctolagus cuniculus | 29 Mar 2021 | DonFletcher | ||
| Oryctolagus cuniculus | 29 Mar 2021 | DonFletcher | ||
| Unverified | 29 Mar 2021 | Avery |
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User's notes
Substantial warren with 4 or more holes that would merit destruction, I think (also all your needs for horenound can be met here!)
7 comments
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
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.
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.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.168548-35.257174
- Altitude 683.0m
- Places Hackett, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 29 Mar 2021 04:22 PM Recorded on
- Avery Recorded by
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Avery Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Oryctolagus cuniculus Rabbits & Hares Mammals
Species information
- 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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