As corella populations reach 'plague proportions' in WA towns, the state's former police commissioner Karl O'Callaghan has been tasked with managing the birds dubbed 'flying cane toads' by locals.
In Bunbury, in WA's South West, Lois Glaser is woken every morning to screeching from outside her window."Instead of having an alarm clock I've got these white birds squawking and squawking … they are very very noisy"Chris Litsch and other residents living near the Queens Gardens in Bunbury's city centre have taken it upon themselves to "defend" their properties from the pesky birds, which have ripped leaves off their trees and dug holes in the local park.
"They are in plague proportions, and there seems to be getting bigger plagues each year. Culling is a controversial thing and it's a difficult thing to achieve but what else can you do?" The corellas have cost the City of Bunbury more than $125,000 over the last five years by damaging playgrounds, signage and electrical cables.It's a similar story in the Avon Valley, east of Perth."They fly around — smash into the bloody TV aerial — they're just destructive little things."
"Anything to do with antennas, anything to do with rubber, anything to do with the rec centre … I have seen photos of CCTV cameras, so that's a security issue as well," he said.Corellas are an introduced species in WA and can compete with other wildlife for food and habitat.
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