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Quoting Paul MacDonald <paulrita2001@yahoo.com>:
> Hi Fred and All
> Growing up on PEI, Huns Perdix perdix now called Gray Partridge
> were very plentiful. My Grandfather used to feed them in the winter and
> he would have up to100 birds. He would sweep the snow of a south
> facing porch and they would roost there on a sunny day. He kept a
> box of grit for them and they ate a susprising amount.
> Roads were neither plowed or salted and school was not too important
> in the winter. Then in the late 50s they built regional high schools with
> buses and all. The road were then plowed and salted. The Huns found
> the sand and salt a great source of grit. That was the end on the Huns.
> Road salt killed them all - same story all over PEI and since then there
> are very few. Only a scattered flock here and there.
> They were a fine bird - we had a few to eat in the fall but they multiplied
> so fast a few less made no difference.
> Some things don't mix
* wow - maybe the increased paving of roads, so that they are salted,
contributed to the demise of the species in our area of eastern
Ontario - the last one in the database from around home is 1995. We've
always attributed this extinction to secondary succession making
fields brushy, but the two things happened simultaneously.
fred.
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