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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PaulD" data-source="post: 1709355" data-attributes="member: 11840">FicedulaWell if you feel that birds colonising Britain naturally should be subject to a risk assessment to see if they will compete with species already present then I don’t think you will get much support.Are Little Egrets competing with other species? How about Cetti’s Warblers – what impact are they having on some of the rarer insects in our southern wetlands? Sorry I can’t see any merit in having a committee to consider whether birds occurring here naturally might compete with other species. It sounds like a nightmare proposal in fact.I would also challenge your assertion about Eagle Owls that “a few got here under their own steam”. What information is that based on? I think it is perfectly possible to look at the information from ringing recoveries etc and suggest that we haven’t seen a naturally occurring Eagle Owl for thousands of years.</blockquote>