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Topic : Protection of our birds |
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| Lewis |
This one might be for hillbilly, I am not sure of what is happening at the moment but there was a legal letter upheld by the 'Government'. As I read it the ruling protects magpies, crows, rooks etc while before they were considers pests. Well we have a rookery now building along with magpies near us and guess what? No blue tits nesting, haven't heard the woodpecker this year, and guess who gets most of the fat balls hung out for the garden birds. I have seen the carnivorous actions of a group of these black horrors, tearing a small creature to bits, what are we to do? |
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| Peter |
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/magpie/legal-magpie-control-methods/ No comment! |
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| Lewis |
Thanks Peter. I am not sure if that RSPB article is current. Chris packham (featured on BBC a lot) crowd funded a legal objection to culling crows etc, quite recently and I think there was no time for objections and so the ban went through. It may well be being opposed now but I have no current information, hence the enquiring post. |
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| Peter |
The Environment Agency restored the licencing about a week after it was revoked. However, as stated on the RSPB website, the "vermin" birds are not considered to be pests in a domestic environment i.e. in your garden. So unless you have a licence it would be unwise to kill them because you may have to prove they have been destroying the young of nesting songbirds. It would only take one upset neighbour to get you into a whole lot of trouble. |
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| Lewis |
Thanks for the current position, Peter. That seems sensible to me, because on farm land the lambs and lapwings etc are at risk and have always culled by farmers. Thanks for the advise on domestic areas. |
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| Peter |
I forgot to say, the original licence was with Natural England which was a quango. The Environment Agency took back the licencing power and restored the licence very quickly because it was effecting the lives of livestock, crops and songbirds at a very sensitive time of the year. We had a lot of crows and magpies in our garden but the numbers decreased rapidly after we stopped putting bird-food out, especially the peanuts and fatballs. There is plenty of natural food around at this time of the year for the songbirds. The tits have sorted out the whitefly on our roses.  |
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