[Myna-minimisers] 2004 Myna Minimisation Trial

[chris tidemann]

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
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