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In reply to Purdey3 :
Pheasants are absolutely everywhere. Their population (no idea about the last 12 months and bird flu) is booming. Pheasants in my garden are not the local shoot’s property, esp if I want to send them an invoice. With so many shoots around here, and so many pheasants no one has a clue as to which came from where, or which are released and which are ‘wild’. You have also contradicted yourself. Latest post states, “classed as wild birds”, yet you insisted they were local shoot property and are asking what information you wrote was wrong.
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In reply to tuwit:
In reply to Dee SA:
Dee SA said: As for damage to wild bird populations by pheasants.... well, I'm 71, I've lived in this house all my life and have seen many, many changes during those years. Many physical changes to the land and to how it is managed, and a good few changes in the fortunes of the wildlife. None of which can I see as being as a direct result of pheasant populationsI know of no damage done directly, or indirectly, by pheasants to any other bird life. 'Keepers certainly waged war on numerous creatures from birds of prey to the humble hedgehog.
Where has anyone said they do? If you are referring to my posts, I said small species. I didn’t specify or mean birds.
As you said, re impact on other bird populations, it is down to some humans in the industry.
Purdey3 said:The earlier post said they were classed as wild once released. I didn't see why I should contradict the legal classification, but the fact is.the shoot bought and paid for the poults, raised them and will charge each gun (depending on the shoot) around £40 per bird. Why so combative? I'm simply providing information for the original poster who obviously didn't know much about shooting. It is bad form to feed someone else's pheasants away from the shoot during the season. Just leave them alone and let the keeper (the clue is in the name) use their skill to return them and retain them on the shoot. There will be a lot about for a while after the end of the season and the keeper won't be too concerned about the cock birds then.
Read the link to the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act.! Have a look what that part of the Wildlife and Countryside Act said.! Although no one takes much notice of that part of the act.
Regards,
Ian.
In reply to THOMO:
I saw what you originally wrote - so Good grief. I suggest you read my post again a little more carefully. Particularly the bit where I say "I didn't see why I should contradict the legal classification," You posted it and I was not going to contradict it. Trying to be helpful does not seem to get you far on this site. I am not here for an argument. I am not supporting shooting. I am not supporting (or otherwise) releasing pheasants. I just happen to know more then the original poster and thought I would provide information. Incidentally the idea that pheasants are routinely dumped is rubbish, as is the idea they are all raised in battery cages in the UK. There is bad practice in every industry but I have worked on lots of shoots (as a gundog handler) and have personally never come across this practice. Birds are reared in pens and taken at the end of the day by beaters or guns or they go to the game dealer. I am not saying you won't find examples of bad practice. Of course you will, and it should never happen, but it is the exception, not the rule. Happy to engage in rational discourse, but bit fed up of the keyboard warriors.