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Thanks Philip for providing the summary of Kris
French's talk on Noisy Miners and Common Mynahs - interesting.
The Noisy Miner is certainly a species here in
Canberra that deserves more attention than it is probably getting currently,
it may well become a more important part of the suburban avifauna in
contrast to previous GBS years.
Several years ago I knew it from Mt Ainslie
only from the area behind the War Memorial, then from the old Ainslie hopper.
Now it can be found anywhere on Mt Ainslie. It is now spreading into the
suburbs, along Limestone Avenue and has reached Corroboree Park, the Ainslie
Football Park and ventures into adjoining parts of Braddon.
Also several years ago at the ANU the first
breeding record came from the Coombs Bldg. Now the ANU is fully colonised and
birds cross Barry Drive into Turner.
No doubt, similar expansion is taking place in
other parts of town. In due course presence of this species may well add to the
difficulties smaller species have in suburbia on top of everything else -
Mynahs, drought etc. It will be important to keep track of Noisy Miner range
expansion which has been happening for some time on the
"quiet".
Michael Lenz
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