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From: "peter boyd" <>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 08:12:18 +1000
Sparrows.
I saw two Sparrows near the rubbish compactor at Morayfield Shopping Centre.
I remarked to a chap that they were the first I had seen for a long time.
He said the Indian Myna (now called the Common Myna) eat the Sparrow eggs in 
the nest.
Does anyone know if this is true, and if so, what other bird eggs are these 
introduced pest eating.
I saw a Cane Toad come out of a Rainbow Bee-eater tunnel nest with an egg at 
Toorbul Wader roost
about three years ago.
I clean up the Toads at nesting time as best I can but the nesting Bee-eater 
numbers are dropping 
off around Toorbul and Bribie Island.
Sometimes the track to the bird hide at Buckley’s hole is black with little 
toads leaving the water
and the snakes line up for a feed.
I have been told they are not poisonous until they are about three months 
old.Is this true.
Peter Boyd  


 
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