Currawongs just as nasty
IT’S soon time for people to be worried about magpie attacks. But, there is another problem bird in our part of town – a currawong.
Last year one of these mongrel things killed our whole family of fairy wrens, parents included. It wrecked a nest that a pair of doves had spent all day building and stole the one egg laid. The doves built another nest.
The eggs hatched and the currawong killed the babies. It also killed baby pee wees and baby magpies in trees near our house. So, last year the only native bird to breed successfully was the currawong.
I contacted the various government departments, bird carers and animal groups to ask how to deal with this problem. The response was alway the same. You can’t do anything. It’s a protected native species.
I received the “it’s natural attrition” lecture a number of times. The rogue bird can’t be relocated.
What about our beautiful, friendly wrens? We are extremely fond of them. This morning there was a currawong in the garden and I’ve already heard the distressed cry of smaller birds.
Can someone please help solve this problem without harming other birds? Look at how the protected ibis and bats are ruining our beautiful city, with their dirty stinking colonies killing trees and vegetation. Are we now going to be overrun with currawongs killing all the other birds? If, like in our street, they are the only ones whose babies survive, there will soon be more of them than any other breed of bird. MARY REILLY,
Toowoomba