Mist nets (1 Viewer)

squidge

Wha Whassssat

• Jul 13, 2015

• #1

Hi, Browsing ebay I came across mist nets for sale. I thought you needed to have a license to purchase bird trapping items or am I mistaken.

Regards Gerard.

 

squidge

Wha Whassssat

• Jul 13, 2015

• #2

Sorry I found an old thread on the same subject in which I even contributed. Memory must be going. Anyway Ive started reporting the sellers in that they are encouraging illegal activity.

Regards Gerard.

 

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Cyrpus

Member

• Dec 16, 2015

• #3

not illegal to sale - I would not waste your time reporting them to ebay as they will do nothing - alas - only illegal to use - in most counteries

 

Neil Hagley

Well-known member

• Dec 17, 2015

• #4

People who use these to catch birds will know exactly what they are.

What worries me is anyone buying them in all innocence to protect fruit trees etc thinking they will just stop birds. Without training most mortals will not be able to extract anything that gets in to a mist net without either causing serious injury or death. It should be illegal to posses them without a licence/permit.

 

Last edited: Dec 17, 2015

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John Morgan

Well-known member

• Jan 19, 2016

• #5

Cyrpus said:

not illegal to sale - I would not waste your time reporting them to ebay as they will do nothing - alas - only illegal to use - in most counteries

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That is not a good enough excuse to do nothing. Ebay will get the message if a sufficient number of people contact them.

Another possibility is to start a public petition to target Ebay for allowing this. 'Care2' petitions: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/ often garner hundreds of thousands of signatures and might be viewed as negative publicity by the target of the petitioners.

 

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AllanM

Well-known member

• Jan 20, 2016

• #6

What I don't get is why mist nets are sold to protect fruit trees, etc. Surely it would be better to use a net that birds can see to discourage them from landing on trees? Mist nets are designed to trap birds not discourage them aren't they? Illogical to me.