A couple of links for this trap,
http://www.mynamagnet.com/
http://sres.anu.edu.au/associated/myna/index.html
- Stephen Selden
http://www.envirotalk.com.au/forum/index.php?showforum=80
--- michael norris <> wrote:
> 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
> .
>
> 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.
>
>
>
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1409313.htm
>
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