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KIlling Buzzards
this is madness! they want to kill the buzzards so wealthy landowners can have pheasant shoots!
They want to kill wild birds in order to kill other birds.
You couldn't make it up!!
They want to kill wild birds in order to kill other birds.
You couldn't make it up!!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I once visited a RSPB website to get information about crows as I was rearing a crow chick. It stated that they (RSPB) kill crows on bird reserves because they (crows) kill other birds. Of course sparrow hawks, merlins etc. don't? What a bunch of ignorant pillocks!
But to get back to your thread, who exactly wants to kill buzzards? Do buzzards kill pheasants? The problem with a lot of the huntin' shootin' crowd is that they are as ignorant as sin about the things they kill and how the eco-systems that they play in actually function.
But to get back to your thread, who exactly wants to kill buzzards? Do buzzards kill pheasants? The problem with a lot of the huntin' shootin' crowd is that they are as ignorant as sin about the things they kill and how the eco-systems that they play in actually function.
Buzzards do kill pheasants,they also kill a variety of other birds,pigeons,magpies,crows,rooks as well as squirrels,rabbits etc.They do the farmers a service with killing vermin.For the odd pheasants they kill,its a small price to pay.RSPB want to prosecute anyone who kills them because they are a protected species.Once again its what the landed gentry wants.
It goes on all the time, I was watching some Buzzards nesting in a tree near me the other year, then suddenly a load of Pheasant runs appeared and within a couple of weeks the Buzzards were gone. I don't think the shoot went to well though as the local fox population got the Pheasants long before the blam-blam club turned up, shame that!
The government wants to kill them? Is there a link? Doesn't seem likely although birds which are protected under EU rules may be unprotected if the government hasn't agreed; magpies are an example, and licensed individuals (meaning the landowner and his agents) may kill those on the grounds e.g. that the magpies are affecting the game birds.
But magpies are very numerous and buzzard predation can only be small, and the bird has not yet settled in all the parts of the UK in which it was once seen
But magpies are very numerous and buzzard predation can only be small, and the bird has not yet settled in all the parts of the UK in which it was once seen
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Here are some facts about the Buzzard by the wonderful Iolo Williams.
http:// www.bbc .co.uk/ ...mmon _Buzzar d#p00dv htk
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It's not the wild pheasant chicks the govt care about it's the chicks bred on Estates for shooting. The Countryside Alliance have raised the issue as they are losing shooting revenue and Govt is considering it. Personally I think it's disgusting to stop a natural predator for the benefit of an unnatural one with dubious motivation (ie shooting for fun).
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