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.
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. Any body have any ideas on how i can move them on ??

[Slunnie]

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

[Jock The Rock]

Air Rifle?

[long stroke]

I thought Butcher birds were native
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

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]

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