OT. Indian Myna birds

Vince

There used to be a product about, waaay back in the 60's and 70's called Shoo-Bird. Don't know if it still available. Try Google

In essence it is a paste that gives off a burning effect though not damaging skin tissue when doing so. You would smear some on the branches where the birds gather. They soon got the message

Alternatively...borrow an air rifle.


Cheers

Vince

this guy hates them too

Sorry I cannot help much but returning from Sydney I had lunch at the Cockfighters pub and was reading a local community newsletter and they had a group advising farmers and local people how to trap and dispose of this pest bird, apparantly rather effective. The Cockfighters pub is in Bulga sort of south west of Singleton.

Maybe worth a call :)


Brian

G'day Vince,

I didn't think these birds lived anywhere else other than in the trees over my driveway and they crap all over the drive.

A mouse trap with something either red or blue in them can be rather effective also. Just set the trap near their roost.

Good luck.

A bloke in Canberra developed a trap for them.

It consisted of a Box Trailer with high open mesh sides. Over the top he put slats with a gap big enough for the birds to land on the top and hop down through to get at the food he put in the cage. Of course to get out they have to fly and with their wings spread they cant get out.

I hear he was planning to build more of them and hire em out in Canberra, but it wouldn't be that hard to knock one up.

Yeah the indian mynah trap works really well and we cleaned up the area around our home in Sydney very effectively!!
We got together with a couple of neighbours and hired a trap from the Indian Mynah guy but I cant recall how much it cost us --very cheap though. When you dispose of the trapped birds you place the birds into a a heavy duty garbage bag and attach to the exhaust pipe of a car and birds euthanased quickly and painlessly---worked for us!!
Goodluck
Gary

They are a major pest and will become more so - taking over the nests of natives and driving them out. In some suburbs of Melbourne the only birds I see are Indian Mynahs!

I would like to see low power air rifles taken off the firearms list (as is the case in UK) this would enable people to shoot the damn things in their back yards.

I hear little from our urban Green friends who seem to constantly be wanting to "save" forests they never visit in regard to this pest - perhaps I'm not listening in the right places?

Mike Harding

I have an Indian minor trap downstairs, it works, we don't have them anymore, I'm happy to pass on the details of the guy that makes them, or I could lend it to you but I'll think they'll come back one day so I'd rather get it back so prefer not to sell it.

As above, the guy who made it said only indian minors drop in, and he was right.

Disposal ? I put it in a chook bag and tie it with string to the exhaust and put on some music for a couple minutes, CO is truly deadly stuff, 3 minutes and they're out. I also figure if people top themselves that way voluntarily it can't be that cruel.

PM me if you're interested in a loan. Or if you're handy I can take detailed pics and email them to you.

This is an easy way, get them drunk, no! I’m serious, birds get drunk very easily, and soak some grain in any cheap holcohol and you see them falling down drunk, as some one suggested, put them in a plastic bag, and your car exhaust, but only if it is petrol, does not work with diesel


Joe blogg

A garden planted exclusively with native plants and particularly dense shrubs mixed in will attract native birds and they will exclude the introduced pest birds . I dont mean just grevilleas either . Check this link rainforestmagic

Porl,

that’s easy just put it on a table

I don't think we have these birds in WA (I'll stand corrected).

I googled these sites:

http://www.mynamagnet.com.au/Default.asp?c=194432

Site Link

http://www.indianmynaaction.org.au/

http://www.duralstockfeeds.com.au/prod50.htm

http://www.mynah.nelsonbay.com/

Site Link

Indian Myna Handbook in pdf

Best thing about WA not many introduced birds.
only ones i see a pidgons, rainbow lorakeets (only round perth) and kookaburras (only in the SW)

very refreshing not having a backyard full if sparrows and starlings

Plans for the traps are available here

http://www.indianmynaaction.org.au/

Just give them a ring and plans will be sent via email.

Pooley

Well we dont have them here...yet.I know of a few times they have hitched a ride on the ferry but were quickly disposed of by the Parks and Wildlife with air rifles around at the Bluff.

G'day Vince,

if you have the room, and the inclination, try some Isa Brown chooks. Worked for us. Have not seen an Inidan Mynah for 2 yrs.

Hi Vince,
My brother and I share a MiniMyna from Myna Magnet, works a treat.

My brother has made some nesting boxes for a couple of pairs of Eastern Rosella's that frequent his yard.

In the last 3 to 4 years neither of those pairs of Rosella's has successfully raised a single chick. Very dutiful these Rosella's, both pairs visit and maintain their nests twice a day 365 days a year!

Every year without fail those stinking Indian Myna birds either destroy the eggs or kill the hatchlings of the Rosella's.

There are certainly far less Myna birds around both his place and mine than there where but even one is too many for our liking.

Down side is there are still 2 pairs of Eastern Rosella we know about that aren't even getting the chance to replace the parents in the wild stock let alone increase the population.

There's a screwball ex Sri Lankan doctor from the local hospital here who's campaigning (rather un-successfully) to have the Myna's protected under some such "God's creature" religious scheme and a perverted belief that the native wildlife will "get used" to the Myna's!

Geoff

i remember a time years back when everyone used to own a slug gun ... and potting pest birds in your backyard was standard practice ..... now with Incredibly restrictive gun laws you cant even buy a SPUD gun without a license....

who was it that once said --- "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction ??" ;)

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