Jonno wrote:
This is interesting stuff. Also the veiled method of dealing with the
problem.

The scrub turkey can be a menace in the garden as it scratches around
garden beds looking for grubs and roots. However, this isn't as bad as
when a turkey decides to build a mound in your garden. Nothing short of
forced transportation to a new location miles away will stop the bird
from scratching together every loose item in a circle up to 50m in
diameter!

The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service have got some helpful hints on
how your garden can co-exist with turkeys, as well as much other
interesting information. If you really can't put up with your neat
garden beds starting to look like Middle East war zones, there are
private contractors who will relocate the offending bird(s) for you -
look in your Yellow Pages under Pest Control (N.B. this is not a service
provided by the Parks and Wildlife Service). But, be aware, nature
abhors a vacuum (!), and nothing short of a desert of concrete will stop
another inquisitive turkey investigating the grubs in your rose bed!

The aboriginal Australians and early settlers did eat the birds, but
they are, of course, now protected.

The qeustion is, how would you deal with this problem ? Turkey soup? And
do they taste anything like a koala?



This question came up a good while ago. The advice given (and it worked,
too, according to the questioner) was to artfully place a few large
rubber snakes around the garden. Apparently, the turkeys felt it better
to avoid the place with snakes and moved on.

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Trish Brown {|:-}

Newcastle, NSW, Australia