5,000 Days Observing Wild Emus AMA

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What fun!

This is the first clutch -- 2009. See the plate? Still using it today.

So, 'Supreme Emu' -- me -- has been studying Rothschildi emus -- South West Western Australia -- since May, 2008. 'Notes from the Homeland' were posted here in maybe 2010. The observations covered, at times, hundreds and hundreds of acres, and thousands of hours. The house-clearing, around my old farm house, has no cars, no cats, no dogs. Wonderfully quiet.

We have insights on territorial behaviour, the formation of breeding-pairs, the actual mating and laying and incubation period, emu diet, and lots more

 

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I don't even remember this one! This is a wild bird. See what great plumate it has?

 

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They are so great! Emus are the best! Once we went out bush and there was a male with sixteen chicks. My sister said: "And that's why the mum ran away."

You're from WA? Do you get many wild ones out there?

 

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They are so great! Emus are the best! Once we went out bush and there was a male with sixteen chicks. My sister said: "And that's why the mum ran away."

You're from WA? Do you get many wild ones out there?

The 'heel' of this state is a massive National Park -- out my living room window, it's fifty miles to the next house. The fences around me are down in many places. So, I am really actually 'in the bush.' Tame-wild emus come and go through my backyard, sometimes even through the car port.

SE