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Originally Posted by matt_xyz I'm not quite sure why you would want to hand tame a wild bird like this. I would ask one question: Is it in the bird's best interests? I can't really see that it is. Yes, we intervene in other ways such a providing bird feeders but that is unequivocally in the birds' best interests. It helps them to survive. Feed the birds by all means but I see no need for hand taming.
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I'm still with matt on this, why do you want to do it ? isnt it enough to feed and admire them.
I also still say that by doing this you are making it very vulnerable to the sort of idiotic behaviour that is sadly seen everday. Yes a bird is always vulnerable to an air rifle but a hand tamed bird is also vulnerable to being imprisoned without food, poisoned, hit with hard objects, stuck to sticky substances, etc etc
You may think that this is unlikely, but that requires a touching faith in human nature which I have lost the hard way - I could tell you some really sickening things that I have seen done to wildlife which got a bit too near to some lout. For instance I once knew a swan that had been hand tamed - it eventually wound up being nailed to a tree - alive. I could go on ad nauseum but I dont want to upset people by with these highly distasteful tales.
Bottom line - there is no good reason to hand tame this bird, so dont do it.