I will be interested to see the responses of other BIRDING-AUS list members
to this.
I shall have to visit Braeside Park!
>> I am in two minds about how to talk about birds like mynas, Common
>> Starlings and blackbirds to my children. Things tend to be "good" or
>"bad"
>> to a 6 year old. So far I have described mynas as "those brown birds with
>> black heads that run around like cowboys and scare away other birds".
>
>IIRC, some of the signs along the walking tracks at Braeside Park (VIC)
>describe Starlings and Mynas quite bluntly as "bad", pointing out the
>problems they cause such as taking over nesting holes used by native
>species. I think Blackbirds were also mentioned. I have no problem with
>exotic feral species (including Spotted Turtle-Doves which are abundant
>in Frankston) being described as "bad" to children.
>
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> Paul Taylor Veni, vidi, tici -
> I came, I saw, I ticked.
>
Victoria Quinton
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