This week on What the Heck is in my Garden? We cover the airborne menace that is the miner bird, or is the mynah bird? Noisy or common? Is there any difference?

Do these populous birds deserve the title of ‘cane toads of the skies’ or are they deserving of a more dangerous title?

Can miner birds kill cows?

All this and much much more will be answered on today's episode of What the Heck is in my Garden?

Links:

ABC Survey of greatest pest:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121109021837/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/wildwatch/results/award.htm

Mynah derived from Madana:

https://www.encyclopedia.com/literature-and-arts/biographies/asian-and-middle-eastern-art-biographies/mynah-birds

Aggressive enough to attack cows:

https://www.step.org.au/index.php/item/60-the-noisy-miner-a-friend-not-a-pest

Noisy miner birds deemed too populous:

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/sue-taylor-cull-noisy-miner/7418506

Canberra Miner bird cull:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/may/15/indian-mynah-bird-australia-cull

Woodland Miner Bird cull:

https://www.nespthreatenedspecies.edu.au/news-and-media/latest-news/to-cull-or-not-to-cull-quieting-the-noisy-miner

Same fine for killing miner birds as wedge tailed eagles:

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/tougher-penalties-likely-for-illegal-killing-of-wildlife-20210211-p571ig.html#:~:text=In%20NSW%2C%20corporations%20are%20liable,the%20illegal%20killing%20of%20wildlife.