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  • Little birds, big problems: City’s $150k roosting fix not cheap

    Little birds, big problems: City’s $150k roosting fix not cheap

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    An Adelaide City Council plan to manage the tiny tree martins expected to arrive in the city between December and April would cost about $150,000. The birds roosted in Rundle Mall and died in numbers last April after being deterred from Leigh Street, where trees were netted to prevent bird faeces from affecting businesses on…

  • Call for tree change on canopy protection

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    Green Adelaide chair Professor Chris Daniels wants the relationship between trees and animals recognised, describing how thousands of tiny birds descend on the popular eating and drinking district at dusk from January to May. “We have about 10,000 tree martins that come down from the north in the summer, and they feed on the mosquitoes…