At Monday night's council meeting, Cr Gary Bird said the council needed to investigate the possibility of a cull, with the appropriate government departments.

Cr Bird called for gun laws to be relaxed and field and game shooters be allowed to join a corella cull.

"I don't want to turn it into the wild west but something needs to be done," he said.

"I love birds but these things are just yabby bait as far as I'm concerned."

Cr Bernard Gross said his major concern was that corellas were occupying many breeding hollows in trees.

"People down Balmoral way have told me they are throwing out the nests of cockatoos," he said.

"If we don't do this, we won't see black cockatoos in this area."

Cr Gross said when he was at school the whole municipality would have a shoot-out to eliminate as many corellas as possible.

"We have professional shooters, who shoot foxes and from local gun clubs, who could do this professionally and quickly to help us," he said.

Cr Gross said firing explosive rounds to scare the corellas away was not working.

"They're just going somewhere else to destroy someone else's roof," he said.

"We need to stop pussy-footing around and encourage the whole community to get behind this and make the department hear our concerns so something is done."

Cr Gross said corellas were not native to the Wimmera.

"They are from Western Australia and they managed to fly across the desert to Victoria. There was none here before the mid to late 1940s," he said.

Cr David Grimble said corellas were a difficult issue to manage.

"One or two don't cause problems but when they congregate is when you have problems. There's been a cull before to split the mobs up and disperse them out of trees. We need to reduce numbers," he said.

Cr Mandi Stewart said she was concerned about the use of firearms to kill corellas.

"I am a bird lover but I do acknowledge corellas are problem," she said. "I would hope we could do it by a trapping method.

"We have to make sure we're not seen as hillbillies and taking to guns. It has to be done through the appropriate channels."

Mayor Michael Ryan said the damage caused by corellas was a hot topic at Australia Day celebrations.

"There will be political views and we'll probably be criticised, but it's a big issue for this community and causing people a large cost," he said.