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Hi
Terry,
I wonder if
you would mind clarifying for the people's benefit (or just mine) what happened
in this story. on Sunday while in the back yard,my attention
was drawn to three Mynas trying to fend off an attack on a fourth from two
Currawongs,as I watched another two Currawongs came to join the fray....All over
in half a minute....But I started to reflect "Strange,where are the rest of the
Colony of Miners usually about Ten?"
I assume this
means that 3 Pied Currawongs killed one Common Myna out of a group of 3 and that
you expected a group of Noisy Miners to harass the Currawongs out of the
vicinity but that this didn't happen. Beyond that I see that you are advocating
a Currawong reduction scheme.
Philip
-----Original Message-----
From: terry
gourlay [
Sent: Wednesday, 8 April 2009
4:08 PM
To: hot line
Subject: [canberrabirds] RE:Currawongs
36-Small Passerines nil.......
Dear All,
At the risk
of seeming tedious I would again draw peoples attention to the dearth of small
passerines in the Majura foothills behind Mackenzie St Hackett....The only
birds that are prospering seem these dratted Currawongs,larger parrots and
Crested Pigeons....I could have added Noisy Miners to the list but on Sunday
while in the back yard,my attention was drawn to three Mynas trying to fend
off an attack on a fourth from two Currawongs,as I watched another two
Currawongs came to join the fray....All over in half a minute....But I started
to reflect "Strange,where are the rest of the Colony of Miners usually about
Ten?" Since then I have looked for the birds in their usual haunts (Usually
they stick around in a 300 yard radius of my back gate)and also a second
Colony about four hundred yards along the track....Not a Sausage...Well them
that live longest see the most!only time will tell.Another casualty to these
vermin is the Eastern Rosella he seems to have dissapeared too,as I saw one
taken by Currawongs off a feeding table about five years ago they are probably
also casualties ....there seems plenty of seed for them so assuming there is
no dreaded Pollypandemic I think we could reasonably assume it is the
Currawong...Oh 36-nil?well I thought before the Honeyeaters come through to
distort the figures I would count the Small passerines and Currawongs
encountered during a half hour stroll up the hill behind my home....As an
aside,there is a Currawong nest used every year in a tree in front of my
home,it might make a valuable exercise for some student perhaps to examine the
food remnants in that nest....Failing that why not expand the Mynah trapping
to Currawongs?..
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