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Malcolm
 
Default Re: Magpie has rights too, judge rules

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:53:14 +0100, "Jill"
<news@REMOVETHISkintaline.plus.com> wrote:

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>"Malcolm" <MAO@indaal.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:TjwKkUhOgBB$EwdP@indaal.demon.co.uk...
>>
>> In article <PKfLPiXsi9A$EwV$@clef.demon.co.uk>, Charles Francis
>> <charles@clef.demon.co.uk> writes
>> >In message <428df4d53112eefebef732e48018ba4f@free.teranews.co m>,
>> >Malcolm <Malcolm@malcsplace.com> writes
>> >>There has never been a case of corvids killing a healthy animal on the
>> >>farm, despite your misrepresentation, the same act you use to justify
>> >>killing foxes by your hunt friends.
>> >>
>> >>Get real,
>> >
>> >
>> >Get real yourself. Magpies and carrion crows take ducklings, chicks and
>> >even goslings, quite apart from eggs, and decimate wildlife
>> >populations. And its not just one or two, they decimate populations.

>>
>> For which last statement, I would ask you to produce some hard evidence.

>
>you really need to get into the real world
>They will take whole clutches in the space of less than an hour
>that is pretty good decimation in anyones book


Is this one clutch or hundreds and thousands of clutches? (es!!)

>often however they take them over a period of days


Ah that must be why there is no substance on record for your story,
crafty these mags arent they?

>the result is the same
>nothing to go into the next generation


You need to get out more.

>>
>> Hint: there isn't any and it is a subject that has been investigated in
>> depth.
>> A few anecdotes, mostly in letters to the Telegraph, but nothing more.

>
>You ask anyone who lives in the real world and they will not have anecdotes
>but first hand experience
>IE - they have seen it happen time and again


Once, twice, maybe even three times in a lifetime.

No doubt you have larsen trap in hand to save the world?


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So, you dont like reasoned,
well thought out, civil debate?

I understand.

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