Graham Turner said:
Not sure if this is true in other areas, but I have both Noisy miners and
Indian Mynas at my place in the Lower Blue Mountains. Removing one wont
necessarily favour the other as one is largely arboreal and one is
terrestrial.
About six years ago or so, when I lived near Cooranbong, NSW, we had Common
Mynahs nesting on our property. A group of Noisy Miners moved in and the
Common Mynahs left. After about six months, the Noisy Miners moved on. After
they went, there was a huge increase in numbers of small species, wrens,
thornbills, scrubwrens, pardalotes etc. but the Common Mynahs never came
back. To my mind, Noisy Miners are not a problem in areas where the natural
vegetation is relatively intact and connected to large areas of native bush.
It is only in disturbed habitats or isolated vegetation remnants, where they
have nowhere to move to, that they cause the problems that some on this
forum blame them for.
Paul Osborn
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