Muntys and CWD don’t overly compete with each other. Muntys are like rabbits, they love woodland and cover and get nervous when out in the open, CWD like Hares give them a 200 acre field and they will go feed/stand/sleep right in the middle of it. Average Munty shot normally sub 50 yds, CWD 150+ yds ( Generalisation but often true)
Muntjac Deer Distribution
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Bit geeky but there's actually quite an interesting paper that was published in the April 2008 edition of Mammal Review about Muntjac Distribution. There were in fact various deliberate relocations from Woburn to sites in Norfolk / Suffolk, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire as far back as the 1930s. Whether or not the 12th Duke of Bedford used an Ifor Williams appears to be unrecorded... I'd upload a copy of the paper but it's too large a file.
Chinese Water Deer are spreading - more slowly perhaps, but they are spreading. They are regularly seen and shot west of the M40 now, as well as having made it to the Norfolk coast.
Chinese Water Deer are spreading - more slowly perhaps, but they are spreading. They are regularly seen and shot west of the M40 now, as well as having made it to the Norfolk coast.
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Sol
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I feel like CWD would also probably thrive quite well on the west coast of Scotland, D&G and Ayrshire are quite wet places we've also got a lot of Scottish rainforest I wonder if nutrition wise the browse in that would be better than a random place in the smackdab middle of England?
There was at least one cwd found near one of my permissions in Essex many years ago, featured in the paper with photo of it. This was undoubtedly a lift and shift by someone though they have not lasted
nun_hunter
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I'd imagine that's partly why the spread into East Sussex isn't as quick and even as expected. Due to the high numbers already of fallow there are lots of places where there is barely any understory in the woods and just open farmland (also full of fallow).
I'm sure they live well elsewhere together but maybe the muntjac were there in good numbers before the fallow
It would however be a totally crazy idea to ruin what those areas already offer, via illegal introduction .
I have only hunted CWD at venues that are close to Woben and going out for CWD / Muntjac is something different and by no means is it too far to travel for a Scott , Just as guys come from the South of England and Wales to get out after Stags .
CWD would certainly survive there as they are built for far colder weather than the UK ever gets, but at what cost to the environment ? Muntjac i suspect would not do as well because of the huge shift in climate ( other than that bit on the West that catches the Gulf steam ). Quality Roe , Reds , Sika and patches of Fallow here and there are quite good enough imho.
This "FAWN" was released back to the wild. 2014
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Think the Stapely water gardens comment was after the correct ID.
Fire crew rescues deer from city centre canal
Chester: Fire crew rescues deer from city centre canal
Shot most well within 50 yards but yeah they do feel safe in the middle on a field even when your stood bold upright . They seem to favour certain plants especailly those things that shed the cotton type stuff
Odd animals turn up all over , a good few will have hitched a ride I know of a definite Muntjac in Chorley Lancashire a good 20 years or so ago ( Leeds-Liverpool canal side) . Did it walk or end up in an container waggon back ?This "FAWN" was released back to the wild. 2014
Think the Stapely water gardens comment was after the correct ID.Fire crew rescues deer from city centre canal
Chester: Fire crew rescues deer from city centre canal
that was an April Fools that grew legs (sic)
teyhan1
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Stupidity at its highest.
When they get to the west coast of Ireland I won’t be holding back
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