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Indian Mynas and Goshawk

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Subject: Indian Mynas and Goshawk
From: "Andy & Shirley Krajewski" <>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 06:52:43 +0930
Good morning All
The story of the Brown Goshawk and the Common/Indian Myna reminded me of an episode in Pietermaritzburg in South Africa. I watched an African Goshawk chase a flock of Indian Mynas into a macadamia tree and then crash in after them, thereby flushing them out in a panic allowing her to pick off one. While I watched her plucking it I had the innocent thought:
"I hope she likes curry" , and promptly collapsed laughing at myself.
There was a fellow in the area who was a falconer and had trained his Black Sparrowhawk to exclusively take Indian Mynas - it reduced the local population substancially.
Regards
Shirley
 
Loxton
South Australia 
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