Keith Reeder
Watch the birdie...
That's precisely the point though: it's not for the BOU and the RSPB to prove that EO isn't an erstwhile UK native species, but rather for someone to prove that it was.vwxyzen said:Who can say with 100% certainty that these birds are not the genuine article?
Until there's incontrovertible evidence that there was a natural UK population at some point in the past, it's an alien species. That's just how the argument works.
I'm not saying I like it, but I can't see that there's any other way to deal with issues like this.