Fueling the Invasion

[David Humphries]

Not that this 600 acre urban Woodland site is in dire need of supplementing the indiginous avian population, but these feeding stations and a few other strategically placed ones which are for the benefit of school children visits and twitchers, are slowly being taken over by gangs of alien bully boy Ring Necked Parakeets.

 

Now...... London is a bit precious and sensitive, so trying to get on top of this mass invasion by inviting in trigger happy sharp shooting French & Italians would appear to be in contrivence of the law, as they are "protected in the wild under the the Wildlife and Countryside Act"

 

 

Apart from the unbearable sqwarking often over heard as they maraud across their terrotries, there is an ever increasing action/reaction affecting the whole avian habitat cycle.

 

I forsee this becoming a major issue & threat to our woodland bird communities, certainly down here in the South.

 

Strike whilst the Iron is hot and replicate the Chinese Sparrow wars of the Fifties?

Or leave it till it's too late and they become the climax species of the Avian World.

 

Coming to a town near you.............

 

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/r/ringneckedparakeet/index.asp

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Edited September 23, 2009 by Monkey-D

[sean]

Richmond Park is rife with them. With all the monoliths and vets there is habitat aplenty for them. The hornbeams are being relentlessly stripped and hornbeam walk a carpet of seed casings. In fact it appears that they seem to just like stripping for the sake of it with fruit and seeds going uneaten.

[sean]

Here's one....kinda cute.......

[felixthelogchopper]

Couple of decent hawks would soon sort that out.

[Dominic R]

Take a look at this link, its from the defra website, hopefully they'll open them up to the general licence and then, like you said, we could invite the french and italians over for a bit of a party

 

Defra, UK - : Wildlife Management - Non-native species - Examples of non-native species in the UK

[Charlieh]

just because something is protected doesnt mean you cant get a license to control them, i personally would try and sort it out asap,

 

I currently in one of my roles, co-ordinate a large scale mink control program over about 200km of river, and i would have been happier if someone had done this about 20yrs ago whilst it was achievable

 

be proactive not reactive!

[felixthelogchopper]

Are you trapping or shooting? They are vicious little blighters! I had to fend one off with a bankstick once when I was fishing on the Chelmer.

[David oakman]

We had a flock of ring necked parakeets here about 3 years ago they came in the autumn and went in the spring and never came back. But what a racket they make:lol:

[David oakman]

The river deben where i live is free of mink now as all the landowners helped. We have now had a couple of otters back:biggrin:

[felixthelogchopper]

The river deben where i live is free of mink now as all the landowners helped. We have now had a couple of otters back:biggrin:

 

That's good news, David. Can I send you a few spare mink from down here to help keep you in practice?