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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Coronatus" data-source="post: 3255550" data-attributes="member: 133627"><< though the Eagle Owls which also disappeared would have posed a threat had they remained.>>Perhaps. This was one of the reasons used by RSPB as why the Bowland Eagle Owls would not be missed. Fairly pathetic really as was their claim that Eagle Owls were never native to Britain ad could not be here naturally as "Owls don't fly over the sea!" And therefore they refused to confer protection under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.Getting off topic slightly but I think worth mentioning. Harking to the entertaining Stoke RFF thread maybe next time Eagle Owls make it to your shores you could lob some rabbits or pheasants their way?</blockquote>