I swear I used to get heaps of them visting daily where I live near bushland out west.
Haven't seen a single one of them in years. Last one I saw was a single dying one that had been mauled by a neighbour's cat.
Used to get loads of little fairy wrens and other tiny fellas like that, some of them had a nest with little ones in a bush out by the front of my house. Whole thing got torn apart by the same cat, sending the little ones fleeing in panic across me lawn. I wish I could have rounded them all up and dropped them at a vet, but it wasn't to be.
I reckon we're all fooling ourselves as long as cats are allowed in this country. If any of us cared the least about the future of our birds and wildlife, we'd have bammed the nasty little sods decades ago.
But no, instead we'll kick up a great stink about minor problems till the cows come home, the Indian mynas, cane toads, and the like, to make it look like we're fixing things when we are in fact doing sweet FA. It's the Australian way.
It's completely the opposite here. Quite a few people got mad at cats,foxes so on.
the responce was that a heap of them have disappeared, in sence.
there is one person I know of who dose feed feral cats. Quite a few people have given them a piece of there mind.
I guess this is becuse here is a farming community, many people here keep chickens or some sort of animal. Most people under stand the situation. But the few people who don't, or just don't care, make mass problems.
been seeing birds that haven't been seeing here in ages, according to my mum bluewrens, robins, pardalotes and other smaller birds, haven't been seen in years.
Wimmera mally region, Vic.
Major myna, I guess the neighbour's cat wouldn't be encouraging the Crimson Rosellas to your neighborhood but are there other possible reasons for the reduction in numbers? E.g., drought, general habitat loss or, more specifically, destruction of nesting hollows? What about invasion of nesting hollows by competitors such as feral bees?
If you eradicated any local cats & the Rosellas returned then you could presume that it was the cat presence which negatively affected Rosella numbers. If there was only a small increase in numbers then other factors might be in play.
Now there's a project for you to undertake while in social isolation!
So do you folk still see the crimson rosellas these days? Because the last one I saw was years back, being mauled by a neighbour's cat. Since then rosellas of any kind, crimson, eastern, and what have you, have been rare as hens teeth round my way.
it aint enough to eradicate local cats, even if I could. Its a national problem. If I did manage to get rid of all the loose cats near me, if the cats somewhere else are attacking birds and wiping out nests and generally ruining their lives, then it stands to reason that I still am not likely to get any showing up near me anyhow.
Either we ALL get serious about a zero tolerance policy on cats in this country, or we might as well kiss all our wonderful birds goodbye, especially the smaller and more vulnerable beauties like the rosellas and the lorikeets.