Everyone's had a stab at this, so here is my
solution. Many wont like it. It's called the Nine Steps to Glory Indian Mynah
Eradication Program (NSGIMEP - catchy anagram)
1. Select 40 people from each capital
city and test their vision and hearing. If they pass, they're enlisted as
Mynah Eradicators.
2. Train them with high powered air rifles until
they're crack shots.
3. Train them to spot an Indian Mynah and
differentiate from all other species. Get them to work on those pop-up shooting
galleries like police use. Except the good guys are Noisy Miners and the bad
guys are Indian Mynahs.
4. Run a public education program, including
catchy jingles.
5. Create a map with each city covered in circles
for teams to visit. Each circle divided into quadrants.
6. Put Mynah Eradicators in 5 central
locations in each city wearing a nice bright vest and a bag minimum of 150
birds a day.
7. Pair the Mynah Eradicators up and give
each team a map and a quadrant on their map to cover that day.
8. Give the Mynah Eradicators old bread to
encourage Indian Mynahs to hang around.
9. Send them out from the centre of the
circle to blast the hell out the feral things.
By working outwardly from a central point you'll
get them all. They wont escape into the bush, they don't like it. They'll go
back into previously cleaned up sites. Therefore the process is
repeated. With 40 people shooting 150 birds a day (early morning in city
centres) they'll soon be finished off. That's 6,000 birds a day! Then we
start on country towns. It's the only way we'll get rid of them. You know it's
true.
Ricki
