I've been doing woodland bird surveys within the road reserves along the
Hume Highway between Tarcutta and Albury in NSW over the last 6 months. It's
amazing how much garbage one finds dumped on the side of the road, including
food scraps and their wrapping. I can only conclude that such material is
thrown out of car windows as motorists are travelling along the highway.
Garbage bins at rest spots along the highway also contain food waste and
occasionally, some of these bins are over-flowing with garbage.
Fortunately, I haven't seen too many Common Mynahs along this section of the
Highway (probably because of the large numbers of Noisy Miners), but there
would be plenty of food scraps that could entice them to move along the road
corridors.
Stephen
Dr Stephen Ambrose
Ryde, NSW
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Peter Shute
Sent: Friday, 18 January 2008 9:01 AM
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Subject: Common Myna travelling routes
wrote on Thursday, 17 January 2008 4:49 PM:
> I rarely see 'frontier' Mynas when I'm on back roads so it
> may be a combination of suitable environmental corridors and
> food supplies. I have seen Mynas picking at dead birds in
> the suburbs but not road kill in the highway sense, so
> roadkill may not be a factor.
So what are they doing out on the road? I see them wandering on the
roads in Melbourne a lot. Maybe they're eating squashed bugs? Stuff
the garbage truck has dropped? I've never thought to look.
Peter Shute
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