Tasmanian Native Hen Chick - Photo by Felix Wilson (Wikicommons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSo what stops the population of Tasmanian Native Hens from exploiting the farmers and growing to huge numbers?\u00a0 Well, predation and food availability are the limiting factors for these little guys.\u00a0 They are preyed upon by Quolls, other birds and of course the infamous Tasmanian Devil.\u00a0 It is also known that in years with an abundance of food the Hen will lay about 10 eggs and have two broods.\u00a0 In contrast during those low food production years they will lay fewer eggs and only have one brood.\u00a0 At the end of the day, nature is controlling themselves.<\/p>\n
Tasmanian Native Hen Fast Fact – <\/strong>Even though these Tasmanian birds can’t fly they have evolved pretty good swimming skills and can run like the wind.\u00a0 Remember those powerful legs I talked about earlier?\u00a0 Well, they are able to carry the Hen up to speeds of 50 km\/hr.\u00a0 Not too shabby for a bird!<\/p>\nThat does it for Thursday’s Flightless Bird Wild Fact.\u00a0 Make sure you tune in tomorrow for the last Flightless Bird Fact of the Week.\u00a0 I can guarantee it will be an interesting one tomorrow and will quite possibly become one of my all time favourite Wild Facts.\u00a0 See you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since we were visiting the beautiful island of New Zealand yesterday I thought we would take a quick trip north to Tasmania.\u00a0 You know that island that gave birth to Bugs Bunny’s Friend, Taz.\u00a0 Well, we aren’t going to look at the Tasmanian Devil today but we will continue the Flightless Bird Trend by studying the Tasmanian Native Hen.\u00a0 As you probably have guessed these birds are found solely on the island of Tasmania.\u00a0 This particular bird is unique since it has thrived with the colonization of humans.\u00a0\u00a0 You will find out why in a second. The Tasmanian Native Hen <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[741,4024],"tags":[348,381,46,1322,4124,1321,4025,1320],"yoast_head":"\n
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