So this is the species that represent such a potent threat to Australian
avian biodiversity? I have 'research report' to a NSW coastal suburb which
claims that the Common Mynah is responsible or potentially responsible for,
inter alia, the spread of avian influenza and salmonella, introduction of
bird lice, displacement of Rainbow Lorikeet populations, eviction of
Ringtails from dreys, possessing weapons of mass destruction and being of
middle eastern appearance. Needless to say the research appears to stem from
a purveyor of cages and gas chambers for the disposal of said species where
they have invaded natural McMansion habitat and displaced all the 'natives'
like Noisy Miners, Rainbow Lorikeets ad nausea.
My experience of watching a population of Noisy Miners and Mynahs is that
the latter consistently lost their shopping centre territory to the
adaptable Manorina and its asymmetric warfare tactics. Anyone living around
the "Shire" may also have noticed that, like dominos, street trees used by
Mynahs as communal roosts are falling to the WRX of avian world the sugar
fuelled T. Haematodus.
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