Culled Australian Wildlife.

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Cocatoos make very, very bad pets - they`re making way too much noise, they need space, it`s not easy to keep them in pairs or flocks in limited space (males often kill their females), and when they bond with their human, you have a job for a lifetime or a very frustated parrot making nothing but trouble and destroying the house. And tehy´re too intelligent.

How many students and visitors from overseas have enough space and time and tolerant neighbours to give a pair of cocatoos or even a small flock a good home?! About zero. Who shall care for the birds when the visitors from overseas are travelling to see your wonderful country? And what shall happen when they go back home?

Same for the idea to sell parrots to tourists who are leaving the country. Many people would probably buy one or two, and then all parties involved would suffer for a long time. The bird(s) because their needs are not met, and the people because they have an unhappy cocatoo screaming all the time, plucking the feathers and terrorising the human family members.

No no no.... killing surplus cocatoos is more human then selling them as pets.
Well, the best option is certainly more tolerant farmers letting them live their life. Are they really causing THAT much damage? All farmers have to coexist with teh wildlife that has been around for a much, much longer time....
 
My Great Grandmother had a pet cockatoo. And it was a great pet. Was passed on to my grandfather and then died when I was young. Never caused any trouble and got along very well with the whole family (except my sister) was a great bird. lovely thing, fould mouth though. used to put him on the old clothes line and spin it, he'd flap his wings and screech "bloody bastard" but that was the loudest he was.
 
Yassa said:
How many students and visitors from overseas have enough space and time and tolerant neighbours to give a pair of cocatoos or even a small flock a good home?! About zero. Who shall care for the birds when the visitors from overseas are travelling to see your wonderful country? And what shall happen when they go back home?

Same for the idea to sell parrots to tourists who are leaving the country. Many people would probably buy one or two, and then all parties involved would suffer for a long time. The bird(s) because their needs are not met, and the people because they have an unhappy cocatoo screaming all the time, plucking the feathers and terrorising the human family members.

No no no.... killing surplus cocatoos is more human then selling them as pets.
Well, the best option is certainly more tolerant farmers letting them live their life. Are they really causing THAT much damage? All farmers have to coexist with teh wildlife that has been around for a much, much longer time....
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Ok I would like to modify my statement a bit. Sell only to people who have large outdoor aviaries and are willing to buy a flock for a large sum of money. Not to sell to people who want one or two as pets. Also sell them/donate them to zoos in second world/third world countries after ensuring that they are disease free. Many Indian zoos don't have corellas/galahs.

When I meant -pets for students, I should have been more clear- I meant communal pets housed in aviaries in hostels. Each student can pay a few dollars to feed and pet them in aviaries where they are kept in flocks in a semi-tame condition.

Killing surplus cockatoos may or may not be more humane depending on
1.The method of killing
2.How well the captive cockatoos are looked after -not all captive ones are abused.

But killing them makes no ecological sense because you may be killing the fittest males and females in the population unlike say, when eagles kill them-they target only the weak individuals.
 
Jarkari said:
My Great Grandmother had a pet cockatoo. And it was a great pet. Was passed on to my grandfather and then died when I was young. Never caused any trouble and got along very well with the whole family (except my sister) was a great bird. lovely thing, fould mouth though. used to put him on the old clothes line and spin it, he'd flap his wings and screech "bloody bastard" but that was the loudest he was.
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Most parrots make really bad pets. But some are less bad than the other. Which species did your grandma have? Also it varies with individuals within a species.
 
Yassa said:
Are they really causing THAT much damage? All farmers have to coexist with teh wildlife that has been around for a much, much longer time....

Millions of dollars of damage! Also usually at times of drought when a farmer can least afford this. There is a huge inbalance now in nature as there is definatley an inbalance in what natute intended regarding parrot poulations.

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A rich tourist might be willing to spend 2000$ for a flock of 4 Galahs or Sulfur crests to keep in his aviary back home. Australians might not be wanting to spend money on them but others might. But please don't export them in the manner you export sheep or livestock without even knowing who the end buyer is.

I like your idea, its just that the numbers that need to be reduced! Selling them to tourists. Would make no visable dent in the problem what so ever.

The only long term soloution seems to be a oral form of steralisation. Of course this has many issues.
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Many parrots from the dandenong region espcially sulphur-crested Cocktoos have come down from the mountains to the lower eastern suburbs, my mother is sacred in the future that Rowville will be over populated with Cockatoos and Birds! my mother is very sub-consicious about chinese rumours and Feng Shui, she says often visits from Reptiles and large birds is bad luck! Its very unfortunate that the parrots though have been somewhat driven out from their previous home.
 
This reports are very sketchy and simply lack in facts like any papers out now days... Of course they will be issueing control permits for our farmers not that I support this, you also have to take into consideration urban sprawl and growth Australia is a growing nation and everyday thousands of acres are cleared for development killing, injuring and not considering the native wildlife within the natural ecosystems. A friend of mine has been working on kangaroo management programme at St Marys where a number of males are euthanased and females are implanted with contraception to prevent the staggering population which is constantly coming in contact with suburbia. In the case of Wombats I am aware Sarcoptic Mange is a huge issue in NSW particularly introduced by the Dingo over 4000 years ago now spread amongst dogs, foxes and many other species. Sarcoptic Mange is highly contagious causing bacterial infection, open wounds (from scratching), blindness & death. I have seen this in person a few years back and it is very sickening seeing the amount of trauma and distress the blind scruffy animal in we actually took the animal to a vet clinic were it was decided to be euthanased! Some of these control terms are for the protection of other animals disease is widely dispersed within any species yet the severity depends on exactly what there dealing with... Think about the Tassie Devil's facial tumors?

http://www.wombadilliac.com.au/mange.htm
 
The Australian biologist Tim Low in his thought-provoking book "The New Nature" makes the point that vegetarians shouldn't feel "holier than thou" about the fact that they don't eat meat because the fruit and vegetables we all eat are "...stained with the blood" of thousands of parrots, bats, possums and other animals which are killed to protect the crops.

He mentions a case in Queensland where an orchardist had an illegal wire mesh covering his trees which was in effect a massive electric grid which was turned on each evening and which "zapped" every bat which tried to land. When discovered by the authorities, the guy had to dismantle it, but his fine was minimal.
 
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