Silviculture and Cinegetics Review - Societatea Progresul Silvic

WILD LIFE SILVICULTURE AND CINEGETICS REVIEW XVII/30/2012
Fallow deer in lower Mureş floodplain forests
Abstract
The only Mures river valley forests populated with
fallow deer are west of Arad. Species colonization
was achieved in 1963, when they brought 8 specimens
(2 male and 6 hinds) from the park Şarlota (Timiş
County). They were originally kept in an enclosure,
and then, shortly have been released. If the first
decade after colonization, fallow deer remained in the
forests Bezdin and Rata-Vaida (initially on the
Secusigiu-Mailat hunting fund, then falling under the
Sânpetru German fund), then increasing the number,
Sorin Geacu, Adrian Rener
the species habitat extends north of Mures where in
the forest Gheduş (Gheduş-Remeteag) appear the first
specimens in 1972. In the spring of 2012 there were
138 specimens, most of them (114) in forests Bezdin
and Rata-Vaida and only 24 in the forest Gheduş. The
first specimens were collected in 1977, and the most
valuable trophy (195.59 CIC points) belonged to a
bull hunted on Oct. 15, 2006.
Keywords: fallow deer, Mureş valley, Arad County,
Romania.
Fig. 1. Fallow deer in agricultural land nearby
Bezdin-Raţa Vaida forest
Fig. 2. Female affected by albinism and melanism in
Sânpetru-Gheduş hunting territory
Fig. 3. 170 CIC points trophy of 1988.
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