Minor birds
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If they are Australian natives - you just do not harm them.
If they are the feral imports such as Indian mynahs, then go for it. How it up to you, but don't be cruel as that's just as wrong. Can't offer advice on how to as my only experience is taking to a vet to do the business.
If they are the feral imports such as Indian mynahs, then go for it. How it up to you, but don't be cruel as that's just as wrong. Can't offer advice on how to as my only experience is taking to a vet to do the business.
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Ours disappeared when Angry Birds hit the shelves.
I assume you are talking about Indian mynahs, which are a feral pest, rather than the Australian noisy miner.
http://fennerschool-associated.anu.edu.au/myna/
http://fennerschool-associated.anu.edu.au/myna/
Are these "noisy miners" the same as the tattooed, bogan miners who flock together in Qantas Clubs across the country? I reckon a few of them are feral pests!!
I remember years ago when I worked at a place that used arsenic to stop insects eating into buried power cables.
One day I finished work and was walking through the carpark when I saw my co-worker crying and picking up dead birds from the ground. He said someone had poisoned them and then he started placing them in a row on the ground.
There would have been 20 or more dead birds. Then I saw others that were half dead and would try and fly but couldn't. Then they too died.
I told my co-worker not to eat any of those birds. I then got in my car and drove home.
Someone had baited those birds with arsenic - very effective!
One day I finished work and was walking through the carpark when I saw my co-worker crying and picking up dead birds from the ground. He said someone had poisoned them and then he started placing them in a row on the ground.
There would have been 20 or more dead birds. Then I saw others that were half dead and would try and fly but couldn't. Then they too died.
I told my co-worker not to eat any of those birds. I then got in my car and drove home.
Someone had baited those birds with arsenic - very effective!
thanks Geoff, yes the introduced pest (like Rabbits, Cane Toads, foxes etc)
