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Invasive species – birds
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Pest birds are unwelcome because they:
- damage fruit, cereal and horticulture crops
- displace native species
- destroy ecosystems
- foul houses and infrastructure
- transmit diseases
- cause a general nuisance to humans and our way of life.
A permit or licence is needed to keep many birds—both native and introduced. They can only be kept under certain conditions and are removed as soon as they are detected in the wild.
Some birds are prohibited from entering the state because of the risks they pose if they were to become established in the wild.
The following links include information on:
- pest bird identification
- control or management options
- legislation.
Also available under all birds documents are recent media releases.
The links below include information on native birds that are occasionally pests. Provided courtesy Department of Environment and Conservation they are also available at their web site http://www.naturebase.net/
Areas of interest
Cockatoos and Parrots
- Australian ringneck or 28 parrot (420kb PDF)
- Cockatoo Carnaby’s black (276kb PDF)
- Cockatoo red-tailed black (240kb PDF)
- Cockatoo sulphur-crested (44kb PDF)
- Corellas and other flocking cockatoos (1.25Mb PDF)
- Corella Butler’s (500kb PDF)
- Corella little (204kb PDF)
- Corella Muir’s (443kb PDF)
- Corella Muir's conserving a threatened species (683kb PDF)
- Corella Muir’s Living with (433kb PDF)
- Galah (316kb PDF)
- Indian ringneck (87kb PDF)
- Parrots and cockatoos in orchards (105kb PDF)
- Rainbow lorikeet (5506kb PDF)
- Red-capped parrot (441kb PDF)
- Western rosella parrot (436kb PDF)
Control of Cockatoos and Parrots and other birds
- Best-practice guidelines for bird scaring in orchards (335kb PDF)
- Bird scaring in orchards – checklist (87kb PDF)
- Bird scaring letter (to neighbours) (52kb PDF)
- Black cockatoos in orchards – all you need to know (443kb PDF)
- Black cockatoos in orchards – fact sheet 1 (99kb PDF)
- Black cockatoos in orchards – fact sheet 2 (95kb PDF)
- Damage prevention and control manual (240kb PDF)
- Decoy feeding – providing alternative foods to birds to reduce damage (67kb PDF )
- Destruction of birds to reduce damage (79kb PDF)
- Destruction of ducks to reduce damage (75kb PDF)
- Guide to the safe use of strychnine for emu control (60 kb PDF)
- Limiting access to food to reduce damage (88kb PDF)
- Managing Muir’s corella in blue gum plantations (367kb PDF)
- Minimising the damage and nuisance caused by Muir’s corella (435kb PDF)
- Netting to reduce bird damage (104kb PDF)
- Noise problems with birds in orchards (275kb PDF)
- Options for corella, galah and cockatoo control (80kb PDF)
- Options for parrot control (84kb PDF)
- Rainbow lorikeet management
- Rainbow lorikeet management strategy
- Reducing fruit damage by Baudin’s cockatoo (375kb PDF)
- Scaring and repelling birds to reduce damage (74kb PDF)
- Trapping and export of native animals (73kb PDF)
- Using explosive cartridges (Bird Frite®) to scare Muir’s corella from crops (287kb PDF)
Ducks
- Australian shelduck (201kb PDF)
- Wood duck (222kb PDF)
- Destruction of ducks to reduce damage (75kb PDF)
Corvids
Small Passerines
- Blackbird (94kb PDF)
- Bullfinch
- Common myna (415kb PDF)
- Magpies (150kb PDF)
- Red-billed quelea
- Red-vented bulbul
- Red-whiskered bulbul
- Silvereyes (196kb PDF)
- Song thrush
- Sparrows (113kb PDF)
- Starling (166kb PDF)
- Swallows (164kb PDF)
Quail
Other birds
- Emu (97kb PDF)
- Silver gull (178kb PDF)
- Ibis (214kb PDF)
- Wedge-tailed eagle (98kb PDF)
- Pigeon control options (129kb PDF)
Other relevant information
- Invasive species in Western Australia
- Invasive species – vertebrate animal pests
- Vertebrate animal pest policy, management and regulation
- Importing and keeping introduced mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians in Western Australia (175kb PDF)
- Vertebrate Pest Research Section Publications on birds (115kb PDF)
- You can help keep Western Australia free of pest animals (425kb PDF)
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Page updated: September 2008