Lapwing slaughter

[RobinP]

Hi everyone

Sorry for the blanket message, but I have just seen a video on You tube that
shows the slaughter of hundreds of Lapwing in France.

If you want to see it go to http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=tJZ40T5Xdm0 or just
put lapwing slaughter into You Tube.

It is so disturbing that I would hope that you could ask as many people to
E-mail stavros.dimas@ec.europa.eu at the European Commission to ask him to
enforce existing legislation to stop it.

Alternatively, you could boycott any French products at this time of recession -
it certainly is crazy that this kind of behaviour with a threatened species
still goes on un-checked.

If you are in an RSPB group, please make your members aware of this problem &
ask them to write the E-mail.

Regards
Phil Palmer

[Tursiops2]

Hi, tried the link, got this message: "The URL contained a malformed video ID."
T2

[Hedge Witch]

Could you give me a little background to these. Why do they want to do this?

I cannot watch the video I'm afraid, things like this make me sick - physically sick that is.

[natureguy]

Here is the link

YouTube - Trapping of Lapwings in France - Fang von Kiebitzen in Frankreich - CABS


Thanks for this, will let others know.

Apparently they're a delicacy in france HW

[tameblackbirds]

That really distressing
will email

[Wild-Woman]

Oh for goodness sake! What the hell's that matter with humans. This is just dreadful. I depair at what levels humans will sink to.
Lapwings are one of my favourite wading birds. They are wonderful and why people do this terrible thing to them or any creature is beyond me.
I will write.

[pressld2]

Originally Posted by Wild-Woman

What the hell's that matter with humans.

I could tell you Julie but not without lambasting the French nation, religion in general and the Catholic church in particular and probably getting myself banned from WAB in the process.

Originally Posted by RobinP

Alternatively, you could boycott any French products at this time of recession

I've been doing that as much as possible for the last 25 years for reasons unrelated to lapwings. So far it hasn't had much noticeable effect. They still think that EU directives apply to the rest of the union but never to France.

Dave P.

[Jason Green]

How sick! So pointless and cruel. I'd love to see a lappie, and yet there are people there who see so many they just kill them!

[Birder101]

Good job on raising the profile of this. People need to know.

[Dutchess]

OMG! I wouldn't have thought there would be much meat on a Lapwing

Jason, they are not so unusual down this way, in the wetland areas along the coast. We call them "Peewits". If you ever are looking for a day out Lapwing spotting, you know where to come!

D.