WIMAP Newsletter Number 4 - Wollongong City Council

WIMAP HAS A NEW PHONE NUMBERCouncil is currently implementing a new phone system and the phone number previously used will nolonger be connected. For Indian Myna bird queries you will now need to call 42 27 8138 (Monday,Friday) or 42 27 8112 (Tuesday to Thursday).To check if you can bring trapped Indian Mynas into the Bellambi GeoTech Lab to be euthanised aspart of our euthanising service outside the 11:00am-12:00pm timeframe (Monday to Friday) please call42 27 8112.TIME TO REMOVE NESTING MATERIAL AND BLOCK UP ENTRY POINTSIt is great time to ensure potential entry holes into your roof and eaves are blocked and roof tilessecure to prevent potential entry points by Indian Mynas during the next nesting season. Indian Mynaswill often return to the same nesting site as the previous season and will continue to build upon nestsformerly created. If you had Mynas nesting in your roof, eaves or gutters recently it would also be agood idea to have the nesting material that has been left behind removed before spring arrives.TRAPPING ISSUES?Having issues getting Indian Mynas to go into your trap?Why not try some of the these tips and see if you have any more success getting them to go into thetrap?…If you have not had any success for some time it might be best to put the trap away for at least aweek or so and let the birds forget about it. When you bring it back out give them a free feedand let them get used to the trap. Once they are used to the trap and comfortable with it thenbait it as normalIf the birds are going into the trap and coming out again, gradually try and close the twines atthe end of the tunnel a bit tighter until they can’t get outWhen baiting try and put a reasonable amount of bait where the twines are at the end of thefunnel to distract the birds from noticing that they are walking past the twines. Place areasonable amount of bait in the bottom chamber of the trap to entice them into it.Only put a few pieces of bait in the tunnel … you only want them to work out where to go intothe trap when they are in the tunnel. The rest of the bait should be in the bottom chamber.If you are still having issues after trying these suggestions then let us know so that we can try and assistyou further with getting the birds into the trap.