Indian myna birds,

[E. maculata]

Are telescopic sights on a 12 gauge illegal?

No, but on a shotty completely useless :eek: .

[echnidna]

Duck fishing is fun
Overcomes the shooting bans
Myna Fishing should be very entertaining too

[AlexS]

Soak small pieces of bread in cheap, low-quality spirits or wine (you may have to buy this, although some of that Glenfiddich or Grange would probably work.) Scatter the bread around where the minahs usually hang out.

The minahs eat the bread & get drunk, legless & wingless. You can then collect them in a garbage bag and deliver them, marinaded from the inside out, to your local chinese epicurean, who will, no doubt, tell you what to do with them.

After you've done it, you may want to finish off the cheap grog.

I've never heard of using frozen peas to get minahs, but they work with polar bears. You cut a hole in the ice, sprinkle peas around it, and when the bear comes up for a pea, you kick it in the icehole.

[Robert WA]

Are telescopic sights on a 12 gauge illegal?

Do they make wide-angle telescopic sights?

[ernknot]

Make up some friut mash and sprinkle liberaly with ground ratsack. he he, that gets the little mongrels. Don't try this at home because it is probably illegal and the greenies would hate you for it. But then again............................

[craigb]

Soak small pieces of bread in cheap, low-quality spirits or wine (you may have to buy this, although some of that Glenfiddich or Grange would probably work.) Scatter the bread around where the minahs usually hang out.

The minahs eat the bread & get drunk, legless & wingless. You can then collect them in a garbage bag and deliver them, marinaded from the inside out, to your local chinese epicurean, who will, no doubt, tell you what to do with them.

After you've done it, you may want to finish off the cheap grog.

I've never heard of using frozen peas to get minahs, but they work with polar bears. You cut a hole in the ice, sprinkle peas around it, and when the bear comes up for a pea, you kick it in the icehole.

Tried to give you a greenie for that but it wouldn't lrt me.

[Auld Bassoon]

but they work with polar bears. You cut a hole in the ice, sprinkle peas around it, and when the bear comes up for a pea, you kick it in the icehole.

Wouldn't want to miss though!

[ozwinner]

can I rent it ?

No!
But Grunt is cheap..

Al

[Grunt]

I'll get the little bastards. Send down the airfare, I'll be by Friday. Oh, and I don't eat Pal.

[Gra]

Its not humane, but you could always feed them alka selser. I was told it works on pigeons (supposedly they cant burp and will explode....)

[implexa]

I can't give you the exact details but it goes something like this.
Feed the mynahs for some days in a cylindrical trap made of chicken wire(...maybe they enter from the bottom, exit from the top)
Then introduce a second trap that fits on top of the original but this one has no exit and they are blocked from returning by a funnel type design...sort of thing. They can then be collected and hooked up to the car exhaust or some such humane treatment. Frankly, a 410 would be a good cure but you wouldn't want to scare the natives.

[namtrak]

rat traps

[Cliff Rogers]

The best thing is to encourage Noisy Miners, aka Soldier Birds.

Noisy Miners love Grevillias.

Funny thing is, I've never seen an India Mynah in our yard in the 12 years we've lived in our house, yet just across the highway they are endemic :confused:

We do have lots of Noisy Miners (and currawongs ) though.

They also don't like curawongs. (sp?)

I'm not sure how you attract them, we just have them.

[rick_rine]

rat traps

Thats worked well here for my neighbour on starlings . He baited them with worms .

[bsrlee]

What Implexa said: I have seen an article in a local paper about a council mynah trap - basically a big bird cage with a smaller cage inside. The large cage has a one-way entry - I think something like a curtain of hanging wires that the birds can push aside going in, but can't push out - like the old vending machine cash boxes.

The inner cage has a couple of mynahs with lots of food & water. The birds in the inner cage just keep making the 'lots of food, come & get it' song, and all their relatives come around, find the one way door & come on in, but don't get any goodies. When it gets a bit crowded, the council ranger comes & 'euthenaizes' the non-union birds :eek:

We seem to have: Noisy Mynahs, Currawongs, Magpies, Crows & one or two Indian Mynahs, as well as assorted parrots, but no pigeons. So one out of two isn't too bad - mynahs have mites, but their S.H.1.T is smaller & less gooey.