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| Author: | Jim Wright [ Sat Mar 19, 2016 9:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Threat to skylarks, lapwings and other declining species? |
Does anyone know if there is any research on the impact of gas-gun birdscarers (as favoured by some arable farmers) on the breeding/ feeding activity of ground-nesting species such as skylarks, partridges, lapwings and meadow pipits? Or indeed on yellowhammers, whitethroats, linnets and any other hedgerow songbirds that happen to be in the vicinity? Presumably if these scarers frighten off woodpigeons, rooks and jackdaws, they do likewise to other species. They are not selective devices. On a explosion-related subject, is there much known about the impact on bird populations (land and sea) of wars, past and present? Was anything registered by any of the First World War poets such as Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen? Were any of them ornithologists? |
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| Author: | Geoff Williams [ Sun Mar 20, 2016 1:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Threat to skylarks, lapwings and other declining species |
These gas-gun bird scarers are one of the things I hate about Lincs, particularly the one by Stonebridge car park, I wonder if the farmer has something against the people who live in the two houses there? It would be wrong to make noises like that in a town so why is it allowed in the country? |
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| Author: | Stuart Britton [ Sun Mar 20, 2016 10:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Threat to skylarks, lapwings and other declining species |
In one of the biggest agricultural counties in the country, farmers need to protect their crops from the ravages of Wood Pigeons in particular and gas guns are proved to be effective. From what I read in the paper in towns and cities, particularly Birmingham, they use real guns. I know which I prefer! |
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| Author: | Aidan Turner [ Wed Mar 23, 2016 3:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Threat to skylarks, lapwings and other declining species |
Oh, for the days of the Scarecrow (AKA Worzel Gummage)! |
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