If you're occasionally giving a treat to the birds, dry dog food is ok. And easier to keep in your pocket than mealworms.

Plant lineages from 180 million years ago! So cool.

Great. Now the government will use it to fudge their carbon offset numbers even more.

Look at all these selfish people. Not caring once about the oil and gas shareholders. Imagine caring about your island and not the stock market. What you want them to stop making money? In this economy?

I mean no offense, but I looked into feeding birds, and dog and cat food, mince etc was not recommended,

IIRC, mealworm was best, but they recommended not feeding them so they don't become reliant on us.

or it may have been kookys....

Pls research first

I used to chat to 'mine' after I mowed the lawn. They always did a patrol in the late arvo after I mowed: "Hey mate, hope you get some good worms!".

The ones in my immediate area never swooped me, and I was also bike riding. Apparently, they recognise faces and let each other know who to swoop or not.

A couple of suburbs over, while on my bike, I got swooped a couple of times, but I think they got the word somehow, and I never got swooped again.

Meh, anecdotes and theories.

Perhaps magpies can recognise cunts, and that's who they swoop. We could let them loose in Parliament House and let's see who comes out alive.

IDC, I love their warbles and calls

If there is one in your area, feed it. Buy a small bag of dry dog food or dog treats and throw a few to the magpie whenever you walk or ride past, all year long.

They will recognise you as a friend and not swoop you. And you have a new friend.

Lost a piece of my ear to a magpie nearly twenty years ago hah.

I just feed them something healthy occasionally and they’re friendly. The local ones will take a grasshopper right out of my hand now.

well, that's why they area there

Seems so, especially in Qld.

What the actual fuck. The minister can just veto any court case. Is that really how far into totalitarianism we've fallen?

“Activists based thousands of kilometres away and green groups funded by foreign overseas entities are no longer eligible to have a say,” he said.

Oh, Mr Last, and all the foreign-owned coal and gas companies take profits overseas. The Qld govt is becoming ever more a protector of predatory economic interests instead of the people of Qld.

You sure are lucky to have a tree-supportive council. Wish I could say the same.

Yes, massive gum tree in the neighbours yard. There are a few hollows and a big nest at the top. Been meaning to stake out the hollows with a camera.
The suburb I'm in is very leafy and the council is protective of significant narive trees luckily.

You must have some gorgeous old big trees where you live. Protect these trees and the boobooks will keep visiting. You probably also have other hollow-sheltering species. If you ever get a chance to photograph any of your wildlife visitors or residents, it'd be great to see them.

When I used to live in outer Sydney we used to get boobooks too. I loved their call.

We have one/a few that visit us regularly. Happily "mopoking" away. They also have an unsettling call they do that kinda sounds like a car alarm being unlocked (i think - haven't heard it in a while).

Road trip to Mexico imo

The fact there there are foxes and other scavengers in every city in the world suggests that people do need to be reminded of that.

You wonder if the author thinks people are that clueless that they have to be reminded not to leave garbage and food scraps not in a bin? Mind you, cockatoos have learnt to open bins and get munchies out.

Killing them actually doesn’t work as they’re really good at breeding up to the level their ford sources can support. (Despite this, twats in red jackets like to ride around the UK countryside murdering them at weekends.)

This is why the article actually suggests not leaving food refuse bags out where scavengers can get to them.

Not just 2026. This problem has been developing for decades.

There's been all manner of trials to deal with this problem, including coming up with bacteria that 'eats up' waste plastic. But nothing seems to be implemented, other than recycling and burning. I am surprised they haven't come up with some chemical system to dissolve plastic into smaller quantities of materials that can be used in construction and other applications or that can be safely changed into less dangerous materials . Some recycled plastics are already being used in construction, etc, but that's just not enough. .

Seriously, you haven't thought through what you've just written. The article is about foxes. We don't want people's pets, working animals, stock, or people (and in particular, children who are at no fault) to be affected.

Foxes are beautiful animals and it is really sad that we have to kill them because some idiots brought them here to be killed for 'sport'.

What? Foxes are always ouside.

At least it will kill the cat owners who let their moggy roam first I guess

How many small animals do foxes eat everyday?

Should we be allowing them outside?