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Defra plans to shoot buzzards
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It is planned to shoot buzzards and their nests in response to claims from the pheasant shooting industry that they kills pheasants. This is an outrageous reaction to the loss of a tiny proportion of the millions of Pheasants released for sport.
Have a look at;
http:// www.rsp b.org.u ...-to- impriso n-buzza rds
If you feel strongly please write to your MP so that your feeling can be passed on.
Have a look at;
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If you feel strongly please write to your MP so that your feeling can be passed on.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.This will not happen, seadogg, as too many of us will lobby our MP's and bombard them with emails (I hope!),so eventually this ludicrous plan will be reversed. Seeing Buzzards circling over our homes or out in the country and that wonderful call is such a joy that it's unthinkable that this will be just a memory - just to appease wealthy shooters with nothing better to do!
Stick my neck out time............
Buzzards are very successful predators, whilst the eco-system can probably stand the current level of population any more and other species begin to suffer.
They don't only target pheasants, this article is playing on the false perception that 'toffs' are protecting their sport - there is an inbuilt antipathy in the now political RSPB against shooting and they seize every opportunity to milk public sentiment. Partridge and all other ground nesting birds are also at risk as well as the small cute mammals we all love.
I love buzzards, I like watching them and would hate to see them reduced to the level they were previously but I also love songbirds small mammals and gamebirds.
I have a house in rural France where, I can virtually guarantee that if I drive to one of the neighbouring villages the vast majorityof birds I will see are corvids and buzzards.
Do you want that situation to arise in the UK?
Buzzards are very successful predators, whilst the eco-system can probably stand the current level of population any more and other species begin to suffer.
They don't only target pheasants, this article is playing on the false perception that 'toffs' are protecting their sport - there is an inbuilt antipathy in the now political RSPB against shooting and they seize every opportunity to milk public sentiment. Partridge and all other ground nesting birds are also at risk as well as the small cute mammals we all love.
I love buzzards, I like watching them and would hate to see them reduced to the level they were previously but I also love songbirds small mammals and gamebirds.
I have a house in rural France where, I can virtually guarantee that if I drive to one of the neighbouring villages the vast majorityof birds I will see are corvids and buzzards.
Do you want that situation to arise in the UK?
Read this as well:
http:// www.def ra.gov. ...ing- to-cull -buzzar ds/
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I`m curious about something it says on the rspb website. It says that Buzzards are largely carrion-feeders. As a child, I knew Buzzards as Buzzardhawks. Most hawks are birds of prey, not carrion feeders. I remember seeing a Buzzard taking away one of my Gran`s chicks in it`s claws. Maybe there are politics at work but if the rspb and Defra want to improve things in the countryside, they should cull magpies IMO. They do far more damage to the general bird population and peck the eyes out of lambs and sheep that get on their back.
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