Indian Mynas!

[Brazen]

Just some info for all you living on the east coast, Indian Mynas in some areas are reaching plague proportions.

These introduced pest birds from Sri Lanka/India bully out the native birds, they are very aggressive in many cases take over nests and can kill the native chicks and destroy the eggs.

A lot can be done using special traps (like Myna Magnets) that can capture Indian Mynas in your area. Depending on your state's laws you can humanely kill them with CO2 from canisters or carbon monoxide from exhaust - obviously check what laws govern you. Quite quickly you can wipe out the entire Indian Myna population in your area.

In Canberra the action group http://www.indianmynaaction.org.au/ there of land and homeowners has successfully halved the population in Canberra in recent years. So every bit can add up.

What brought this all up is that my neighbour caught about 30 around the start of the year and since then haven't seen a single one and just today noticed some parrots in my backyard which I hadnt seen in years.