Thread: Indian Myrna birds

I've succesfully trapped them when the young are just out of the nest. They're curious and not yet savvy enought not to get caught.they're suckers for dog or cat nuts. This season, with the abundance of rain has made for a bumper crop of losts of things, including pests. makes it a bit harder to keep up with them. I think we're on about the sixth hatching for this breeding season.
Don.

Originally Posted by garrycol

You can rent traps for them and then you gas them with your car exhaust = all legal in many jurisdictions.

Garry

Not NSW reading the guidlines

These are a real menace, we used to see hundreds 3 years ago. I made a trap out of bits and pieces and we caught hundreds, up to 20 at a time, using bread as a bait.

There is heaps of info on the net on how to make these.

There are almost none around now.



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It is surprising what else ended up in the trap




Erich

around our place we had sparrows, then they were replaced by mynas', now we have dam crows, all of which are a pain. At least if you walk out the back or point a stick at the crow they bugger off.

Think its time to build a trap then.
Thanks for all the helpful hints guys.
I knew I should have bought slingshot when I was up in Brissy 4 years ago..lol

Cheers

We live on a rural block with a lot of native trees and over the last twenty years I have noticed a huge increase in the noisy miner population. They are very aggressive towards other other birdlife too!
We do not have any sparrows here, but about 15 years ago I planted a bouganvillea which grew extremely fast. As soon as the bouganvillea had established itself as a decent bush the sparrow population moved in. I cut the bouganvillea down and the sparrows disappeared.
Maybe they could not complete with the miners once they didn't have a prickly bush to hide in?

Cheers, Mick.

The Indian Myna handbook control project

A Peregrine Falcon would be a pretty good incentive for them to move on.
A .177 or .22 air rifle would do it faster but it's not as cool as having your very own bird of prey.

I read recently that there's a chap who they hire at Wimbledon for a couple of weeks prior to the Championships every year who brings his Peregrine and those pigeons that nest in the various nooks and crannies see him and vanish with their vermin tails between their legs. Those that remain find themselves full of talon holes and are in a pie by dinner time.

Not the most practical advice I've ever given but one can't be sensible all the time.