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Noisy Miners

To: "Philip Veerman" <>
Subject: Noisy Miners
From: "Michael & Janette Lenz" <>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:15:55 +1000
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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