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It was interesting to hear from Philip that the ANU
team's current myna trap is "nothing like a roosting tree trap". But then
in the old days mobile phone towers never looked like trees either!
Michael Norris
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ABC Radio National The World Today - Thursday, 7
July , 2005
CHRIS TIDEMAN: The ultimate aim is to develop a super
roost, if you like, that would be something like an artificial tree on a trailer
that could be placed into position near where mynas were roosting naturally, and
then they'd be attracted into the super roost with recorded bird calls and
probably decoy birds in a cage.
And then the system would work by
enclosing them within a netting type shroud over that roost. They'd then be
decentered or drafted, if you like, in the manner of stock, housed into smaller
cages, and they could then be euthanaised. The method we're using for
euthanasing them is carbon dioxide, which narcotises them essentially, so they
just fall asleep and don't wake up.
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