From chris.tidemann at anu.edu.au Fri May 28 16:00:09 2004 From: chris.tidemann at anu.edu.au (chris tidemann) Date: Fri May 28 15:57:23 2004 Subject: [Myna-minimisers] 2004 Myna Minimisation Trial Message-ID: Dear colleague firstly, please accept our apologies for not getting back to you sooner - it has taken longer to organise the trial than we expected. If you have offered to host a myna trap or make backyard or transect counts of mynas - please accept our thanks for your offer. It is only with the help of people such as yourself that we are able to carry out such an ambitious trial. Suburbs in which we will trap mynas have been selected and we will commence trapping in another three weeks. At this stage, in order to minimise potential bias in the results, we are not making it widely known exactly where we plan to trap. If your backyard has been selected for trapping, we will contact you individually within the next ten days. Irrespective of whether we contact you about hosting a trap, if you are also willing to monitor mynas by backyard counts or by transects, please start counting them now - at least once a week for the next three weeks. Some people have already sent in counts, for which we thank you - please keep them coming. Instructions for counting mynas and submitting counts online are provided on the web site http://sres.anu.edu.au/associated/myna/index.html. Please do not send myna counts to this email address. Our capacity to process individual correspondence is very limited - over 400 people have registered interest in involvement in this trial. If you are not contacted about hosting a trap in this round, please remember, firstly, that counting of mynas before and after trapping is just as important to the success of the trial as the trapping itself - and, secondly, that we plan another round of trapping - in different locations - later in the year. The web site will be updated as soon as we have results from the autumn/winter part of the trial. with best wishes Chris Tidemann for the myna minimisation team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/myna-minimisers/attachments/20040528/a5fb5710/attachment.html