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  1. 4th January 2013, 02:26 PM #11
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    Camping in SE Qld near the water is when you can see the awesome Water Dragons

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    Quote Originally Posted by ugu80 View Post
    Came for breakfast and hung around all morning.
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    Brush Turkeys crack me up.

    The young are left to fend for themselves as soon as they hatch.

    The little buggers go running clean past you.
    How they've survived as a species I have no idea, they're easy pickings for predators.
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    Woke up surrounded by Wallabies one morning in Gibraltar Ranges NP.

    Amazing place by the way. Incredibly beautiful and tranquil.



    They didn't seem threatened by me at all as I went about my morning business. In fact, just as I was thinking about breakfast one even decided to taunt me...

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    Quote Originally Posted by rick130 View Post
    Brush Turkeys crack me up.

    The young are left to fend for themselves as soon as they hatch.

    The little buggers go running clean past you.
    How they've survived as a species I have no idea, they're easy pickings for predators.
    They have lots of young,often around 15 to 20 each season,so probably one or two survive.


    Dunno how Whip birds survive either.After about 12 days in a nest,often low to the ground, the chicks hop out and live on the ground for another month or so, until they can fly,still being fed by the parents.They look like little balls of black fluff,they freeze if you go near them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ugu80 View Post
    Came for breakfast and hung around all morning.
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    theyre not that bad to eat, I've survived onn them
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shonky View Post
    Woke up surrounded by Wallabies one morning in Gibraltar Ranges NP.

    Amazing place by the way. Incredibly beautiful and tranquil.



    They didn't seem threatened by me at all as I went about my morning business. In fact, just as I was thinking about breakfast one even decided to taunt me...

    Looks like he is waiting for you to put the billy on Shonky
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    Quote Originally Posted by ramblingboy42 View Post
    theyre not that bad to eat, I've survived onn them
    I've heard the same from some close relatives of mine that ate them regularly back in the late 70's. Not far north west of you, either RB

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    Nothing wrong with a scrub turkey. Back in the 60's my Uncle and I used to go hunting for them in the Bunya Mts near Dalby. I was only a young un in those days and the strategy was for me to walk thru the rainforest and scare the turkeys out of the ferns, and he would be following pretty close behind. Usually they would fly to a tree to see what was happening and soon after get lead poisoning from a DB 12G. A good stuffing made them come up pretty good on the table.
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