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Originally Posted by eeyore what happens to the bird if the tamer movers away as presumably they will have become its prime source of food,
And finally do we have the ethical right to interfere in nature in this way ? |
OK, but surely those reservations must equally apply to the feeding of any wild bird; and not just garden birds, but also e.g. kite feeding-stations, and wildfowl at places like Slimbridge?
And what about the increasingly common practice of feeding wild mammals in gardens e.g. foxes/
Hedgehogs/
Pine Martens etc.?
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Originally Posted by eeyore what happens if it meets some less well intentioned people who might think it funny to do it harm. |
Fair point, but I still have sufficient faith in human nature to believe such people, while they do exist, are thankfully few and far between, and a robin is as vulnerable to an air rifle at twenty yards as it is at twenty feet.
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Originally Posted by eeyore Will the taming also have altered its behaviour so much that it finds it dificult to interact with other robins, get a mate etc. |
Is this really likely? I'm not talking about hand-rearing a young bird, which can have that effect, just providing a wild bird with different food source that happens to be a human hand. I don't see how that could affect behaviour in the way you suggest.
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