"Larry Stoter" wrote in message
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If one pauses to consider ....

'Songbirds' and the 'usual suspects' - Magpies, Sparrowhawks,
Peregrines
have actually co-existed quite happily in Britain and elsewhere for
thousands of years. If there is now a problem, it makes absolutely no
sense to blame Magpies, Sparrowhawks or Peregrines. If there is a
problem, logically it must arise from something which is different now
from the last 10,000 years. And even a Sun reader should be able to
work
that out, possibly with the help of a few diagrams .... :-)

I understand the ecology of it makes predators the more vulnerable in
the prey-predator relationship. A decline in the numbers of prey species
will kill off predators; and predators can't increase at the expense of
prey. So a large population of predators inevitably suggests a large
population of prey.

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Mike.



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