The council has a permit to trap and gas the corellas and has been attempting to do so in Kaniva without success.

Cr Darren Rayner said bait had failed to lure the birds in Kaniva.

"I don't know how we are meant to trap them when we can't even get them to take the bait," Cr Rayner said.

"There are so many other things around the area for them to eat that they aren't even interested in the feed we have put out.

"We need to be doing something else, it is hard to work out what there is we can do though.

"If you do get a permit to shoot them, you get people offside. People don't want them but they don't seem to want them culled either.

"Maybe we send them to Melbourne and everyone can have one as a pet."

Cr Bruce Meyer suggested culling as the answer to the menace bird problem and requested the council investigate if it could provide ammunition for gun-licensed landowners to shoot corellas on their property.

"I think it would encourage landowners to take care of the problem if we supplied the bullets," Cr Meyer said.

Cr Warren Wait said he thought shooting the birds would send out the wrong message.

"I think we would be the laughing stock of the state," he said.

Cr Eveline van Breugel joked there was potential for the birds to become a tourism drawcard.

"Maybe they could be a new tourism idea - the corella cull," she said.

Councillors voted to move the trap and gas program to Edenhope to see if it would work there while other options were investigated.