On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:13:03 +0000, John Savage wrote:

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 I wrote:
A local council in Sydney hatched a cunning scheme to trap hundreds of
indian mynas by throwing nets over 3 or 4 large palm trees where the
pests had taken to roosting each evening.

I see two major problems with trapping pest bird species in suburbia.
While many people might be willing to set a cage trap in their backyard,
or to allow someone else to set a trap, the need to implement a humane
execution method is a major obstacle. Setting the trap is the easy
part, for your average urban dweller killing whatever you catch on a
daily basis is another matter.

The myna trap is a cage that can accumulate quite a few birds. It needs
to sit in place fora few days for them to become accustomed to it.

Secondly, there are many animal lovers and well-meaning souls who abhor
culling or killing for any reason; you see them distributing bucketsful
of food for pigeons, mynahs, stray cats, etc. These people would be
upset at the sight (or mere thought) of birds that they feed being
trapped and killed by a neighbour. Wide-spread trapping would be a PR
nightmare.

Then they should keep their stupid moggies inside of a night as the law
requires and their dogs under control and not roaming the streets.