"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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"Mary Fisher" writes:
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| Bloody twitcher propaganda, lies and finger into the legislation,
| again!
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| That was an unnecessarily bad mannered comment, you don't know the man.

I wasn't referring to him - he was a victim of it. There is so much
systematic misinformation on this matter that it is hard to believe
any other explanation than a loose conspiracy to deceive.

| No, they are not protected, any more than wood pigeons are - and they
| AREN'T in decline in the UK, according to the official figures -
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| He didn't claim that they were in decline.

Someone else in this thread did.

| However, it is illegal to sell them, at any time, as it is for all
| of the 'pest' species except wood pigeons.
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| That could be what he meant, in fact he did say that he couldn't
display
| them. There was a queue.

Ah. Actually, he would be breaking the law even if he sold them.

He doesn't.

The queue demanded his time, I couldn't expect him to go into more details.

Mary