Wild Boar sightings by bike

morana

Lads as you some of you know there has been a lot of reports of Wild Boar. if you do come across you could report it here

List of invasive species – including wild boar (Sus scrofa & hybrids)
http://invasivespeciesireland.com/most-unwanted-species/potential/terrestrial/

Submitting a record of a sighting:

http://records.biodiversityireland.ie/submit_records.php?fk=InvasiveSpeciesStandard&caching=cache

There is an app for recording species

http://www.biodiversityireland.ie/biodiversity-recording-app-released/

leftism

Wild Boar are not technically an invasive species though. They were hunted into extinction centuries ago. So really this is just a reintroduction of a native species.

jinkypolly

leftism wrote: »

Wild Boar are not technically an invasive species though. They were hunted into extinction centuries ago. So really this is just a reintroduction of a native species.

Well apparently they are not the same species but are a feral pig hybrid, possibly released intentionally by hunters.

Lumen

jinkypolly wrote: »

Well apparently they are not the same species but are a feral pig hybrid

I prefer them with drop - tusks.

More comfortable to ride in an aero position.

Lusk_Doyle

Just back from Poland were I enjoyed some delectable wild boar cooked by the mother in law. Freaking awesome meat!

wanderer 22

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Just back from Poland were I enjoyed some delectable wild boar cooked by the mother in law. Freaking awesome meat!

Boards Boar Hunting spin?

Cantona's Collars

colm18 wrote: »

Boards Boar Hunting spin?

Rambling Man

Lumen wrote: »

I prefer them with drop - tusks.

More comfortable to ride in an aero position.

Aye aye, Schweinsteiger has joined us.

ford2600

colm18 wrote: »

Boards Boar Hunting spin?

Actually came across a young stag trapped in a mesh cycling through woods last autumn on mtb. Cycled home for rifle and shot him.

Gave meat to my neighbour, poor animal was very stressed wouldn't have been to tasty

Where I mtb deer poachers don't interact well with mtb's

Deedsie

leftism wrote: »

Wild Boar are not technically an invasive species though. They were hunted into extinction centuries ago. So really this is just a reintroduction of a native species.

Hunted into extirpation? They were extinct locally but the species continued to exist elsewhere.