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"BAC" writes:
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| That's as may be, but the exercise reported on certainly doesn't support the
| blanket assertion that magpies completely destroy populations of smaller
| songbirds (and therefore 'need' to be culled) which Trapper Alan referred to
| in justification of his opinion of the species.

Oh, quite. In fact, as I posted, it is perfectly possible that culling
magpies might reduce the populations of songbirds. From that analysis,
one cannot tell whether it would do that, increase them, or neither.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.