Dear B-A,
There is a piece in the Sydney Morning Herald’s web site regarding a study on Common Mynah and their effects on native bird species. http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/pushy-myna-birds-a-major-nest-pest-20120812-242v2.html The study was based partly on data collected by the Canberra Ornithologist’s Group. Now that we know they are a pest, it would be nice to come up with a control measure – that”s the rub.
Cheers,
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Excellent response Philip – I have long learnt that newspaper articles on subjects that I know something about (birds and computers) are nearly always wrong – so I assume the rest are as bad as well. I seem to recall an article in The Age on birds on Mud Island in Port Phillip bay that invented a new species of Egret….
Would be good to write to the paper with this detail – although they will probably ignore it.
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I guess ideally, a short-lived and highly-specific pathogen would do it, but that would take considerable lab work to achieve (if it is even possible). Given the numbers and range of them, I doubt that shooting would do enough to dent the population. Hmm – I might take it back about the pathogen: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16498876 However, I’d be worried that it *might* spread further than Starlings and Mynahs. Cheers,
Tony
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