wrote on Thursday, 17 January 2008
2:35 PM:
> I have done a bit of travelling around Victoria this year and
> often see Mynas on the roadside - Hume Freeway, Princes
> Highway in Gippsland, etc.
>
> It seems that road reserves provide Mynas with a travelling
> route provisioned by food scraps discarded by motorists.
I know an ex truckie who travelled the Hume between Melbourne and the
border for many years, and he says he watched their gradual progress up
the highway.
I don't know if the rubbish dumped on the road reserves provided the
food to allow this, or whether the road reserves simply acted as a
disturbed environment needed to reduce competition from native birds.
Or it might be simply that the highways were a convenient place to
observe their spread, which may actually have been happening between the
roads too.
I guess access to road kill might be a factor. Do they eat dead birds
and animals?
Peter Shute
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