The easiest way to approeciate the threat to biodiversity that Common
Mynahs represent is to note how vastly they have expanded from a few
small introductions to being continously present almost all the way up
the eastern seaboard and in inland cities.
If Noisy Miners are keeping them in check in some areas, it's hardly
at the macro level!
John Leonard
2008/9/12 Chris Lloyd <>:
> So this is the species that represent such a potent threat to Australian
> avian biodiversity? I have 'research report' to a NSW coastal suburb which
> claims that the Common Mynah is responsible or potentially responsible for,
> inter alia, the spread of avian influenza and salmonella, introduction of
> bird lice, displacement of Rainbow Lorikeet populations, eviction of
> Ringtails from dreys, possessing weapons of mass destruction and being of
> middle eastern appearance. Needless to say the research appears to stem from
> a purveyor of cages and gas chambers for the disposal of said species where
> they have invaded natural McMansion habitat and displaced all the 'natives'
> like Noisy Miners, Rainbow Lorikeets ad nausea.
>
> My experience of watching a population of Noisy Miners and Mynahs is that
> the latter consistently lost their shopping centre territory to the
> adaptable Manorina and its asymmetric warfare tactics. Anyone living around
> the "Shire" may also have noticed that, like dominos, street trees used by
> Mynahs as communal roosts are falling to the WRX of avian world the sugar
> fuelled T. Haematodus.
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