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Jan wrote:You can get those people's posts cancelled off your viewing if you want. Just ask Neil how.

to "ignore" specific people, you click on "User Control Panel" (on the double blue line above the thread title) and find the tab titled "Friends & Foes". Open that tab and click on "Manage Foes". In the page that opens there is a box in which one can type the user-name of the person or people you want to "ignore". Their posts will then not show up for you and they can be rendered harmless.

I used to keep and breed this species in a large, planted aviary in Blenheim. They bred well but their nests weren't overly robust, and the chicks were tiny for a pigeon species. Nevertheless I did have them nest many times successfully in native shrubs. I was contacted once by a lady who was wanting a hen for her two free-flying cocks. I also tried to home them to our garden but it was a costly exercise. I have had a diamond dove hang around for weeks after escaping, and a friend of my in Grovetown, just outside of Blenheim, would frequently have a few diamond doves getting out of his planted aviaries and you'd just see them flying around the gardens and hanging out on the aviaries. I understand that crested bronzewings (pigeons/doves) had been introduced onto on of the Hawaiian islands, but have maybe died out too?

Jake wrote:I understand that crested bronzewings (pigeons/doves) had been introduced onto on of the Hawaiian islands, but have maybe died out too?

That's correct.

Hey Boneywhitefoot, I like your special needs bit. We all have those! Lots of Xmas grub for 1......

Jan wrote:Hey Boneywhitefoot, I like your special needs bit. We all have those! Lots of Xmas grub for 1......

I don't have special needs, I have special wants.

It's similar, but more high end.

lol

Yes, the CHCH pop seems to have died out unfortunately. I visit the vicinity (the peri-urban roads West and SW of Willowbank Reserve) regularly (7 or 8 times/year), but haven't seen the birds for several years.