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Message: <blockquote data-quote="terry pickford" data-source="post: 1710305" data-attributes="member: 53816">Hi Paul, Great Reply. I am pleased we agree at least on something. However I was disappointed you made no comment regarding the possible threat the eagle owls may or may not pose to other raptor species, habitats and ecosystems. After all this was the main reasons DEFRA asked FERA to undertake the risk assessment in the first place, it had little to do with the possibility eagle owls were not indigenous. On that point in particular take a look at the fifth comment on the following web site where DEFRA have qualified what is meant by indigenous. May I draw your attention to the way the word "COULD" is being used by DEFRA?   <a href="http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/?p=882#comments" target="_blank">http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/?p=882#comments</a>PS, I almost forgot, The World Owl Trust ie., Tony Warburton the Trust President,i s working as I write to complete a definative paper on the eagle owl. I am given to understand that evidence presented within the paper will provide evidence that eagle are co-existing in Germany with a wide range of other avian species without any problem. Tony has also been made aware that photographic evidence of eagle owls photographed on several North Sea oil platform do exist. I just hope he is able to locate them to show that at least these birds are crossing some distance towards our shores.</blockquote>