"Songbird Campaign"

[agooday]

Not photography exactly, but bumped in to an article in the Times a few week back with the idiotic argument that a decline in songbirds had been caused by 'too many birds of prey' - or something a long those lines. Apart from the fact that prey/predator ratios presumably pretty much take care of themselves (or am I missing something here?), I just put it down as a one off.

Then again, in yesterday's times - a bit more. Seems maybe a shooting lobby might be using a songbird campaign to start blasting some new targets, starting with crows and magpies, then maybe sparrowhawks (or anything that might be rumoured to eat a game bird chick I guess)

Is there a campaign against this campaign I can join?

[Purplepixii]

Not sure if the RSPB have a campaign going yet but they're against the cull as I understand it: BBC News - Crow cull plan to save songbirds sparks controversy

Sarah

[Littlesparrow]

This sounds a bit of a tricky one as they are doing it as a controlled experiment in a limited area. I suppose they could do other experiments to find out how many song birds and eggs are being taken. It might be more useful to closely study the birds that are failing to thrive, to look at the big picture, habitat loss food supply, chemicals etc.