Vanishing House Sparrow wrap-up

["M Gardner" <>]

Have a look at cities without ferals.  The main street of Darwin I've seen Double-barred Finches, Bar-shouldered Doves, Peaceful Doves, Pied Imperial Pigeons and Red-collared Lorikeets (which roost in the middle of the place).  Double Bars and Peaceful and Barshouldered Doves fill the niche of sparrows and feral pigeons (hopping and walking around your feet).  Rufous-banded Honeyeaters, Yellow Orioles and Orange-footed Scrubfowl are often in the garden around parliament house.

 

Head over to the middle of Nhulunbuy and you get Great Bowerbirds stealing your left over lunch tucker out the front of Woolies as opposed to indian mynahs.  Surely our cities would be better off without a feral alternative, their niche would be taken up by a native. I know I'd rather have Crimson finches nesting in my ceiling (and they do!) than friggin sparras.  I also left a pair of jeans on the clothes line too long once and Crimson finches started building a nest in one of the legs (try and get a starling to do that....)

 

Marc