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    Ethical Question

    Watched Peregrines do the same in the UK.There is a video of Peregrines flying into quarries with live Pigeons and releasing them near the bottom so they have to out fly the young Falcons over some distance and hundreds of feet high before clearing the quarries walls
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    Most comprehensive book on Peregrines?

    The Peregrine author is not Newton but is Derek Radcliff
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    Barn Owl chicks stolen

    Crazy Barn Owls breed like Chickens in captivity you can normally get one for nowt or the cost of the paper work A10 and ring
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    Hunting with Golden Eagles in Mongolia

    Interesting this one. In the Middle East the arab hunted for over 4000 years no problem until they became rich and had little concept of conservation and as we all know this has been disaster for the three main Quarry species and has put pressure on wild Falcon stocks.In Europe we to are wealthy...
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    Petition to prevent Fox Hunting once more....

    Indeed it is and it will be politics that will give Raptors the best protection but sadly not under a Conservative govenment
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    Petition to prevent Fox Hunting once more....

    Hunting Plus a large cash donation to the Labour party by the LACS
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    Petition to prevent Fox Hunting once more....

    Don't know why people bother,the law will be changed to allow people to hunt legally again once the Conservatives have a large majority,and they will continue to hunt just like they do now Iv been out with hunts 3 or 4 times since the ban and no one gives a dam about the anti hunt laws the only...
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    Buzzard & Goshawk ..?

    looks like a Goshawk to me
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    Super falcons to deter gulls

    Gull Control with Falcons Wont work the Gulls will sus that the Super Falcons are not a threat just like 99% of Peregrines wont hunt Gull.If however the Falcons are trained and Entered at Gull and flowen at Hunting weight the Gulls will clear off but this would not be ethical as Gulls would be...
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    shooting of birds of prey

    Large Gulls like Herring GBB AND LBB Gulls are a threat to young Grouse so will be controlled on Grouse Moors don't know of the legality of it but shooting Gulls following the plough makes no sense as the plough is bringing them in to exploit the short term glut in food the gulls wont stay are...
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    Northumbrian Birding

    West Hartford Out with the Pointer at West Hartford Saturday 1st Feb about 11.00 got a good point and walked in to about 20ft from dog before sending him in to flush what I thought would be a pair of Partridge or a Pheasant but I was past my self when a Bittern got up then about 50 yards away I...
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    Houbara Permits to be issued

    Bustard In short yes,but lets not forget we in the west learned conservation values over some 250 years the gulf states have hunted sustainable for thousands of years then thay became rich and had no concept of conservation but things are changing
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    Northumbrian Birding

    Female Peregrine on Pylons Great North Park,Saturday morning
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    does any BOP take adult mink? that you know of?

    Mink I think it all comes down to foot size and structure,large raptors like female goshawk and eagles have feet that can wrap around small pray with out killing or incapacitating instantly thus increasing the risk of life threatening injuries,smaller raptors like male goshawks or buzzards have...
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    egg thefts

    Egg Collecting It amazes me why people cant understand the fascination with egg collecting,these individuals do all there own research often historical,they find the sites often before the conservationists, plan the raids to every detail and mostly get away with it,like some think from an...
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