Sulphur-crested c0ckatoos - how to make them go away?

TimTim · Guru

RE: Sulphur-crested c0ckatoos - how to make them go away?

Wanda · Guru

TimTim wrote:

Just be thankful they are not pelicans.

Or Elephants

but boy, would THAT be interesting biggrin

Ian

rgren2 · Guru

Just a heads up.

****atoos are a protected species under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 and the penalty for shooting and killing a ****atoo can be up to $22,000 fine and/or five-years imprisonment.

peter67 · Guru

Better shoot lots of them then to make the 22,000 worth while.

landy · Guru

It's only illegal if you get caught Mike. Now would you like a good recipe for C0ckatoo or are you going to cook it the same as the Platypus.
Landy.

oldbloke · Guru

BTW, shanghai are illegal/prohibited in Vic.

Corndoggy · Senior Member

Bin Chickens are also protected. But would I care if someone was to do away with some of them.

Mike Harding · Guru

landy wrote:
It's only illegal if you get caught Mike. Now would you like a good recipe for C0ckatoo or are you going to cook it the same as the Platypus.

As they are likely to be tough I though I'd do them in a casserole as I do with koala?

They haven't been around for a couple of days (I think my demented eagle dance in the nude did it) but yesterday I went into Mildura and bought one of these:

Air horn

I liked the idea of the stock whip but unfortunately don't own one although a guy I know once persuaded me that he could whip a blade of grass held between my lips - he did too!

Playing calls from birds of prey had no effect whatsoever; the c0ckies are so dam stupid they just sit there fat, dumb and happy totally oblivious to everything around them.

There are pelicans here, a floating flock of about 10 greets me each morning when I step outside, indeed looking out the van window now (7.20am) they are illuminated by the most beautiful crimson sunrise developing across the river - I'm only about 10m from the water.

I'm thinking of making this my theme song:

Tom Lehrer

DMaxer · Guru

Dont be too quick to dismiss the ****ies as cerebrally challenged Mike. They have been proven to have more intelligence and much smarter than dogs. It intrigues me as to why you would seek solitude amongst nature and then do everything to move it on. Perhaps there is an old industrial or Chernobyl type area that needs a caretaker that might be more appealing and the ****ies can keep their home and you could be at peace. A win/win situation all round. Sound good?

Mike Harding · Guru

You just want to see me doing that dance in the nude don't you... I've heard about you and your very strange habits Dmaxer....

hufnpuf · Senior Member

Mike Harding wrote:

They haven't been around for a couple of days

As soon as they've eaten whatever they found in the tree, they'll go somewhere else. They don't just sit in trees for fun, there's something yummy up there.

dorian · Guru

Mike Harding wrote:
I'm thinking of making this my theme song:

Tom Lehrer

Something in the same vein ...

Mike Harding · Guru

hufnpuf wrote:
They don't just sit in trees for fun

You're right: they do it solely to persecute me!

DMaxer · Guru

Most birds, especially ****ies, are very curious. Take it as a compliment that they find you interesting Mike.

Aussie1 · Guru

peter67 wrote:
Better shoot lots of them then to make the 22,000 worth while.

Agree, lead poisoning the only way to go. furious

86GTS · Guru

Friends of ours recently purchased a brand new Ford Mustang GT.
A bird did a big sh*t on the bonnet so they washed it off the same day.
It left a large circle in the paintwork right down to bare metal.

Whenarewethere · Guru

Just be grateful that we don't have New Zealand's Kea, they destroy cars, & they will do it in teams. We had to drive out of an area as we couldn't chase them off.

Izabarack · Guru

dorian wrote:

Driving from Williams (Route 66) to the Grand Canyon in 1992, this song was on the radio just as we drove over an already dead skunk on the road. I bring up that experience every time someone muses about not beliving in coincidences.

Sulphur Crested C0ckies were being attracted to the bird feeding station set up by my neighbour. After these birds destroyed his TV Antenna, the solar panel wiring, and the Solar hot water wiring, he removed the bird feeding station. The C0ckies still come back occasionally but leave if there is no easy food available. SCC seem to like to hang out during the breeding season if there are suitable nesting hollows around.

patrol03 · Senior Member

It has already been suggested..Orange gun. You need a length of 90mm plastic pipe about 600 to 1m long, screw on end cap, piezo igniter. hole for charging with cheap hairspray and newspaper or rags for wadding. a box of oranges and a dozen VB tins for you and ya mate while you make the cannon and play with it for the afternoon. Its a great time waster and you will have fun too. Might even disperse the critters.

Warren-Pat_01 · Guru

Hi Mike,
As a birdo, I'm with buzz lightbulb of using predators' calls - either a peregrine falcon or wedge-tailed eagle. When their food runs out, they'll move on.

In the '90s Telstra had problems with corellas eating the window (clear acrylic end) of the waveguides at the Dysart R/t - SW of Mackay. The waveguides were filled with dry air to keep moisture & corrosion out. The window was attractive to the birds as they could see their reflection in it. Whether they were affected by the RF radiation, I don't know.
After reading a gardening magazine, we bought & installed an imitation hawk. It worked initially but we seriously underestimated the intelligence of the birds. After the hawk didn't move, I was told the culprits were seen trying to copulate with it; when that didn't work, they ate it!! Later trials of painting the antenna with "volcanic orange" paint had some success.

Are We Lost · Guru

I used to have a crow that came visiting just about evey morning a little after sunrise. It would peck one specific sliding glass door. I believe it was trying to remove the rubber seal, because there were many peck marks on it. I would thump the floor or make other loud noises and it would fly away, but come back in the next few days. Then someone told me that if you give crows a good scare they will never return.

So I prepared a low open top box and ran fishing line over it like a shoelace so it could see in, but not easily get in. Then, I had a hair trigger rat trap that I had filed down for increased sensitivity. Gently slid that in and put a piece of meat next to it, then closed the box end. So as soon as the box was bumped it would go off, but it would not actually get caught by the trap.

Next morning the trap went off. I heard the caw caw caw as the crow flew away, and it never returned. They are very smart, and very wary, so it may have thought it was such a close shave it should find another window to peck.

There is a flock of those sulphur crested birds that nest in trees about 200m away from me. They return every spring and the newborn try out their voices incessantly, and wheel around and around once they learn to fly. Too populated to use some of the solutions suggested here. I would love to find a remedy for them to move on, but there are other neighbours between.

-- Edited by Are We Lost on Monday 27th of June 2022 11:19:51 PM

dogbox · Guru

Are We Lost wrote:

I used to have a crow that came visiting just about evey morning a little after sunrise. It would peck one specific sliding glass door. I believe it was trying to remove the rubber seal, because there were many peck marks on it. I would thump the floor or make other loud noises and it would fly away, but come back in the next few days. Then someone told me that if you give crows a good scare they will never return.

So I prepared a low open top box and ran fishing line over it like a shoelace so it could see in, but not easily get in. Then, I had a hair trigger rat trap that I had filed down for increased sensitivity. Gently slid that in and put a piece of meat next to it, then closed the box end. So as soon as the box was bumped it would go off, but it would not actually get caught by the trap.

Next morning the trap went off. I heard the caw caw caw as the crow flew away, and it never returned. They are very smart, and very wary, so it may have thought it was such a close shave it should find another window to peck.
There is a flock of those sulphur crested birds that nest in trees about 200m away from me. They return every spring and the newborn try out their voices incessantly, and wheel around and around once they learn to fly. Too populated to use some of the solutions suggested here. I would love to find a remedy for them to move on, but there are other neighbours between.

-- Edited by Are We Lost on Monday 27th of June 2022 11:19:51 PM

a mouse trap with a sheet of A4 paper over it ,scares them but dosen't do them any damage also works with neighbors cats that do their business where they should not

DMaxer · Guru

Maybe the ****ies are just giving you a subtle message as to what they think about generators.

Mike Harding · Guru

Hi Warren - unfortunately the bird of prey calls didn't work.

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Are We Lost - Crows are pretty smart, I believe they are the only bird known to use tools.

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Many years ago in another country my (ex) wife who was very fond of gardening complained she was really fed up with inserting her hands in the soil in our garden only to find them covered in cat poo especially as we didn't own a cat! Fair enough, I thought.

We were aware of one cat which visited our property, it squeezed through the steel bars of a gate then walked down a passageway to our back garden and, presumably, did its toileting there. I arranged a surprise for it: the passageway had the gate at one end, the house with side door on one side and a solid wood 6' fence on the other side. I set up an infra red motion detector about 5m from the steel gate and attached a loud siren to the detector.

The next day I happened to be in the kitchen, next to the passageway, when I noticed the cat strolling down the front path towards the gate. I bided my time :)

Sure enough about 30 seconds later the siren started, I snatched open the side door to the passageway to see a terrified cat which had a steel grill behind it, a 30' brick wall and me to its left, a 6' fence to its right and some dreadful loud wailing 6' in front of it. This is the only time I have seen a cat do a 7' high vertical take-off and then steer 1m to its right and disappear from sight.

We never saw the moggy again :)