> Mike Carter wrote:
>
> One reason for their increase is naughty people like me who so enjoy there
> presence, feed them in their backgarden!
>
I think naughty is the wrong word. Degrading might be better.
Small skinks suffer enormously from butcherbird predation and I know
butcherbirds are associated with the disappearance of blue wrens.
Thus in a heathland (not often visited by Noisy Miners etc to harass them) the
population has been reduced from about 20 to one, possibly itinerant, female.
This coincided with the arrival of Grey Butcherbirds.
Similarly this summer, their breeding in a part of our foreshore bush was
accompanied by blue wrens practically disappearing from that area with none of
the signs of breeding, which was recorded around there for about 20 years.
Please don't do it.
Michael Norris
Bayside Friends of Native Wildlife
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