Interestingly Ring-necked Parakeets along with Feral Pigeons seem to be the most numerous prey items of the 2 pairs of Peregrines near me & suspect for many other London pairs.I quite enjoyed the survey but the Peregrine introduction for Ring-necked Parakeets was a pretty bizarre suggestion!
All the best
Paul
Interestingly Ring-necked Parakeets along with Feral Pigeons seem to be the most numerous prey items of the 2 pairs of Peregrines near me & suspect for many other London pairs.
Yes, I wasn't faulting your critique, just pointing out that the Peregrines will arrive naturally if they have the breeding sites. No shortage of food at these urban sites & negligible persecution.More the suggestion of introducing them with which I took issue. Interestingly for a Cambridge undergraduate social sciences project - and therefore one would hope at a sophisticated and free-thinking level - for me it showed that the interventionist panacea of native wildlife introduction/enhancement was now so well ingrained that it is a default and there is now a snowball's chance in hell that anyone will realise the correct approach is buy more land for nature, don't concrete existing land, don't poison land, don't cut down vegetation, reduce development, etc.....
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Edit - I have just amused myself by wondering what the reaction would have been to the suggestion back in the mid/late 80s at the Alma Brewery from the birding undergraduates at the time! A lively discussion would have ensued.
All the best
Paul
Edit - I have just amused myself by wondering what the reaction would have been to the suggestion back in the mid/late 80s at the Alma Brewery from the birding undergraduates at the time! A lively discussion would have ensued.
If we were back in the mid/late 80s the only place with any significant number of parakeets would have been London, and there wouldn't have been any peregrines there then, apart from the odd visitor - so they would indeed have needed to be reintroduced!
We don't advocate death camps, just a bit of responsible keeping it in your trousers. Maybe get a hobby? There's more than one kind of shag.Can we please have a conservation thread that doesn't end up advocating death camps!
Can we please have a conservation thread that doesn't end up advocating death camps!
We don't advocate death camps, just a bit of responsible keeping it in your trousers. Maybe get a hobby? There's more than one kind of shag.
John