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Originally Posted by Airehead In the other Falconry thread, what I consider to be the most practical issue has hardly been discussed, and that is the practice of introducing foreign birds. Please consider the massive problems that have been caused to other branches of British wildlife by the release or escape of alien species. |
given how much the british raptor population has been depressed by persecution and DDT it seems unlikely that a few escaped BOPs are going to be a big deal. We could take a feral haris hawk population and not really notice.
In the brecks escaped goshawks have helped bump start the recovery of the wild gos population
in north yorkshire there is wild population of eagle owls (subject of a natural world programme last year) which have fitted into to a vacant ecologivcal niche
a much bigger consideration regarding escapees is that if they escape wearing jesses they are unlikely to be able to feed themselves and thus will starve to death , it is for this reason that you should take all reasonable steps to stop them escaping.