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    What additions would you introduce to our avifauna....?

    I don't know where the "holier than thou" came from at 3.48 am, but my participation in this thread is because of concern for the planet and having seen what damage introductions have caused. As for your first point, there are more than "enough" accidental introductions to contemplate...
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    What additions would you introduce to our avifauna....?

    You've obviously thought about it a lot more than the OP! There's free speech and all that, but there are some things that may be best not to discuss. Given the damage caused by releases world wide I would include releases as something not worthy of consideration in any circumstance. Maybe...
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    What additions would you introduce to our avifauna....?

    I honestly thought that the original post was a bit of a wind up, to start a thread showing that introductions are such a bad idea (having travelled in Australia I know that they are) by proposing that they are fine. He'll be saying next that egg collecting wouldn't have an adverse effect on...
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    What additions would you introduce to our avifauna....?

    The house sparrow isn't a species that "once was" with respect to the UK. It is a species that "still is." I cannot think of a species whose introduction would be beneficial to an area where it didn't previously occur. Most introductions do "have a negative effect overall". Indeed, I cannot...
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    What additions would you introduce to our avifauna....?

    What additions would you introduce to our avifauna....? None. The planet has been bleeped up as it is by idiots introducing creatures to where they don't naturally belong. Imagine the biodiversity if these introductions hadn't taken place.
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