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Noisy miners: it's only in the last couple of years that they have arrived in my area. On the ABC two or three months ago I saw a bird show; at a park/reserve in the St Kilda area they had a dead pardalote which they fixed to a tree branch, played a pardalote recording and the dead bird was swamped by noisy miners ...

Several months ago in the back yard there was a dead kingfisher - killed by noisy miners??? (I have never seen a kingfisher here before/after that and the only time I have ever seen another was on a footbridge hand rail across the Darebin Creek in Alphington ten [?] years ago.)