Got murder on my mind

[wayne]

Well about three months ago the butcher birds moved in and the rotten stinkin little varmints are driving me crazy.:mad:
Every morning at first light they are pecking away at the windows around the
house (they can see there own reflection) and they have chased all the native birds away.There is not a single native bird left anywhere.Obviously this is progressively ramping up my anger and dislike for these flying rodents
too such a point I am now plotting there demise.:twisted: Any body have any ideas on how i can move them on ??

[Slunnie]

Ratsack if the animals dont eat the carcasses or Rat traps. :D

[Jock The Rock]

Air Rifle? :p :angel:

[long stroke]

I thought Butcher birds were native:confused:
Could be wrong:)

TIM.

[scarry]

Same at our place,the butcher birds & noisy miners have chased everything else away:(

Except the occasional pale headed rosella & the rainbow lorikeets.

Cant do much about them as they are both native.

The butcher birds breed somewhere close by as there are often young ones around.They do eat the spiders & geckos that are on the eaves of our house.

Its those horrible Indian miners that i hate,& they are not native

[MickS]

Butcher birds are native to Australia. From the same family as magpies. You must be referring to indian/common mynas. They are fair game.

[long stroke]

If your talking about Indian mynas, do what you can to cull the little buggers:twisted:

TIM.

[Jhonno]

Butcher birds are black & white about half the size of a magpie and have a nice little hook on the upper beak, they are quite freindly chaps & have the most beautiful call.

[PhilipA]

My butcher birds live and coexist quite amiably with all my parrots, although they are afraid of the maggies and kookas.

The Indian Minah ( brown with yellow eye surround ) birds seem to be chased away by the Australian native Miners ( grey with yellow eye surround) which are pretty game in taking meat from a kooka's mouth.

In Sydney butcher birds are grey with black caps.

I think you may be referring to Indian Minahs, which are the scourge of the earth. They and cane toads are all over Fiji too. Those poms have done wondrous things to the world.
Regards Philip A

[slug_burner]

DPExpert Gallery :: BIRDS IN OUR GARDEN :: ButcherBird02 (http://www.dpexpert.com.au/gallery/Australian-Birds/ButcherBird02)

[stage1slave]

If they are indeed the indian variety, your local council may be of help. On the sunny coast here, they will give you a trap. Culling is encouraged. I've just recently seen them in the Yandina Creek area!

If they are our native butcher birds, I find that a couple of cat cutouts, with irredescent eyes, hung about the place deter them. You do have to keep moving them about but. They're pretty clever for bird brains!

good luck either way

[wayne]

They definately are Indian Mynahs I think:p
They certainly dont look anything like the Butcher bird in the pics that Slug burner posted and going by the descriptions on some of the posts I am pretty sure they are Indian Mynhas.Will call council today and see if they have traps ,if not maybe some Ratsac might do it.:twisted:ha ha

[Chucaro]

Mate Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis) are the music of the bush and I love them.
Here is a photo that I have taken in my backyard

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/05/262.jpg

[Lotz-A-Landies]

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Its those horrible Indian miners that i hate,& they are not nativeExotic is the word!

We now have corellas in their hundreds maybe thousands. Not usually endemic around the coastal strip, they moved in in the last decade with the drought on the other side of the ranges and decided to stay so are breeding up quick time.

Then there's hundreds of sulphur crested cockies that are destroying everything they choose.

All native so we have to live with them.

[JohnF]

We have had butcher birds snatch chickens from our bantums, and fly off with it in their mouth. Batams are gone now [carpet snakes, etc] so do not see butcher birds as much

[scarry]

They will definitely be Indian Miners:mad:

There were pockets of them out Ipswich way for years,and appear to have spread over the last 20yrs to other areas.

When we were at Waterford the kids made a possum box & put it in a tree.didnt take long for the Indian Miners to move in.:(

They are not to be confused with either noisy or bell miners that are native.

Butcher birds,i once saw one catch an escaped budgie.It gave the budgie two whacks against a branch & dropped it,stone dead.

There are also two types of butcher birds,pied & grey.The grey is smaller,with similar markings to the pied

[long stroke]

They will definitely be Indian Miners:mad:

There were pockets of them out Ipswich way for years,and appear to have spread over the last 20yrs to other areas.

When we were at Waterford the kids made a possum box & put it in a tree.didnt take long for the Indian Miners to move in.:(

They are not to be confused with either noisy or bell miners that are native.

Butcher birds,i once saw one catch an escaped budgie.It gave the budgie two whacks against a branch & dropped it,stone dead.

The local butcher bird got our budgies also, ripped one of there legs clean off through the wire:eek:

[Landy Smurf]

kill the *****s you might be able to use traps and use dog food as bait or just use a gun i only ever kill enough to even out the odds for the other birds

[medic455]

If they look like this, then all bets are off and the only thing that they need is a quick death.....before they spread

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/05/190.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/05/191.jpg

[lardy]

butcher birds are different over here in the west used to get a couple at campbell barracks and have seen them at the prison ...they are pretty cool birds. funny enough to relate whenever i have seen them here they have been closely followed by kookaburrahs at both locations ...previously someone said they were related to maggies, is that the go? as they eat similarly too each other at campbell where raw food appearred for them

[rick130]

Yep...they'll do that....and other baby birds from the nest but so will some of our other meat eating natives ;)
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Magpies and Currawongs come to mind ;)

A friend of mine is a twitcher, and she's not too enamoured of the buildup of the Maggies and Currawongs around here due to that fact and the effect it has on the other natives.

[subasurf]

Get a ging or an air rifle and shoot them. Simple. Or set deadly traps for them.

[Chucaro]

Get a ging or an air rifle and shoot them. Simple. Or set deadly traps for them.

for the Maggies and Currawongs :eek: :o