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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jos Stratford" data-source="post: 1446652" data-attributes="member: 12449">You are welcome to your opinion, but as you admit, your view is purely conjecture on your part - the evidence from where the species already co-exist suggests a different story.However, whilst I respect your right to hold different views, this is an open public forum and if you post blanket cries such as "if it isn't native, get out the shotgun" or double it with factually incorrect statements such as "get rid of the non-native predator causing their decline", then don't be surprised if I will counter it. Your comments, though I appreciate you might have different motives, come somewhere between the views of the less enlightened gamekeepers (it's a predator, kill it) and Songbird Survival (it's a predator, kill it).</blockquote>