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"Mary Fisher" writes:
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| | What's wrong with woodpigeons in gardens, anyway?
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| In moderation, nothing. The problem is that they don't have appropriate
| predation pressure in the UK.
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| Except by man. I eat a lot of wood pigeon :-)

With the suburbanisation of the south-east and midlands, there isn't
enough of that to be called "appropriate predation pressure" any longer.
This is precisely why we have a deer crisis, after centuries of deer
being almost endangered in the lowlands of the UK, with no reduction
whatsoever in their 'natural' predators (there being none).


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
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