About Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee (B4C) Contact Information COMMON

Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Phone: 3398 8003 HUMANE REDUCTION Committee Inc. (B4C) was established as Fax: 3398 8316

an incorporated catchment and landcare E-mail: [email protected] PROGRAM

group in 1997. The success of our Website: www.bulimbacreek.org.au organisation has been achieved to a major degree by the efforts and outcomes of our Visit us at our Open Days services provided by the First Saturday of the month from 9am Services Unit. As a Social Enterprise, we reinvest the Address: Cnr Wright St and 1358 Old majority of our profits in supporting the Cleveland Road, Carindale, 4152 environment and the community. Our activities with the community are undertaken through education and school projects, supporting bushcare groups when requested and by providing the community opportunities to be involved in tree planting, weeding and working on waterways and bushlands. Our office is located at our Sustainability Centre in Carindale.

This program is sponsored by Brisbane City Council Environment Grant.

Why Common Myna are a Common Myna ( tristis) What can you do? problem? have spread worldwide over the last Record your sightings 200 years. In , Common Mynas are Common Mynas were listed among 100 of often confused with the native MynaScan is a free mapping system and a the world’s worst by the (Manorina melanocephala) and sometimes community website that allows people to World Conservation Union (IUCN) in 2000. with yellow-throated miner (Manorina flavigula) map Common Myna sightings, their In Australia, Common Myna birds are because of their similar size and appearance. damage and control activities in local considered to threaten native biodiversity The common myna has: areas. due to their territorial behaviours and nest  a brown body cavity competition. B4C has joined as a community group, and  a glossy black head, neck and upper breast now we can work together in mapping  a distinctive white patches on their wings that and monitoring Common Myna sightings. If are clearly visible in flight. you have seen these birds in your area, you About the Common Myna could help us recording and sharing your Humane Reduction Program sightings with us. Find out more on: www. feralscan.org.au/mynascan The ‘Common Myna Humane Reduction Program in Brisbane’ is a community program which creates community awareness of Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis) impacts, volunteers Common Myna build cages and participants trap Common Myna birds in their backyards. (invasive bird)

Trapping in your backyard Noisy Miner (Australian You can borrow a cage from us to start Native birds) trapping in your own backyard. You will need to read and sign our Welfare Protocol before starting any trapping.