Birds are pecking apart Australia's national broadband network
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Australia's national broadband network (NBN) is being pecked apart by birds.
nbn™, the company building and operating the NBN, has revealed that “native parrots have recently been found feasting on spare power and fibre cables strung from NBN Co's near 2,000 Fixed-Wireless towers”.
The company has used a picture of a sulphur-crested cockatoo to illustrate its announcement. The species is infamous for trashing anything it decides to have a go at. A flock can strip a tree in a couple of hours, either to find food or to hone their murderous beaks It's therefore unsurprising that the birds have taken to cables.
