On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:42:15 -0000, "Tumbleweed"
wrote:


"martin" wrote in message
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On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:58:19 -0000, "D Russell"
wrote:


One thing I notice is not mentioned much is the vast numbers of small
birds
caught and killed on certain medeterranian islands, huge nets erected
during
migratory periods to harvest anything which flies.

There are fishermen who have done the same to fish and now see it as
an EU conspiracy that there are no fish left.

Great european state we
live in where this would be totally illegal in one country but is fine
next
door.

There are countries where half ****ed wonders dress up in antique
clothes to shoot grouse and pheasants specially bred to be shot.


...and the relevance of that to declines in native birds is....?

both are totally irrelevant. Both actvities gave gone on for more than
a hundred years and can not explain the sudden decline of sparrows.