Law breaking?? (1 Viewer)

Hi

I have recently been undertaking bird surveys at an inner city site and have recorded feral pigeons nesting underneath a bridge that is set to be demolished. I have recommended that the contractors postpone demolition until the nests are no longer active, but a group called the London Wildlife group have told the contractors that they will take away the active nests.

I would be very surprised if this group has a licence from Natural England to carry out this service as there is no health and safety issues. I was always of the belief that Active nests should not be disturbed for any bird within the UK without a proper licence in place.

Can any one shed any light on whether this group are actually breaking the law carrying out this service.

Thanks

(MY) LIFE'S TOO SHORT FOR TWITCHING
Having recently spent untold hours looking through gates/peering over hedges/and numbing my butt sitting in hides I have come to the conclusion that life's too short for a septuagenarian to waste time 'twitching'.
Invariably I have arrived too late or left too soon to see the moribund waif on offer anyway. Most recently I arrived at Old Moor RSPB at 06.50 hr, having left home at 05.15 to enter the Bittern Hide at 07.00 only to be told that the Little Bittern had just flown a few metres from one hidden site to another. 5 hours later I arrived home only to see that the uncooperative creature had just been seen, undoubtedly by assembled thousands.
So that's it - my aged bones will not be seen at 'twitches' again. (Unless another species not OML appears!)

The most amazing thread drift!

Feral pigeons are exempted from the laws protecting wild birds nests, as they're not really wild birds and are legally classified as pests.

If they did have to wait for them to finish nesting, they'd have to wait a few centuries too, as feral pigeons nest all year round