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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Price" data-source="post: 1709710" data-attributes="member: 79902">From what I have read it is very hard to object to the Eagle owl based on the grounds of its possible threat to other birds, as it will predate on just about anything up to the size of a small deer.Whatever is in abundance is what it will eat the majority of, for example the birds that were breeding in Yorkshire for the past 13 or so years, I believe had a diet made up almost entirely of rabbits which are estimated at a population of approximately 45 million.There really should be a full and complete assessment of the actual risk, done in conjunction with the EO experts, anything less seems completely counter productive and stinks terribly of a hidden agenda.</blockquote>