Bath Peregrine Eating Other Birds!

[Guest bristolkev]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_9138000/9138316.stm

[sapper756]

http://news.bbc.co.u...000/9138316.stm

 

 

thats the plonker off the one showhttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/angry.gif

[geordie1234]

THEY ARE GOING TO BE NESTING IN EVERY TOWN CENTRE SOON ENOUGH THE WORD DOOMED SPRINGS TO MIND

[sapper756]

THEY ARE GOING TO BE NESTING IN EVERY TOWN CENTRE SOON ENOUGH THE WORD DEEMED SPRINGS TO MIND

 

 

I would say the word DOOMED is more appropriatehttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gifhttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gifhttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gifhttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif

[geordie1234]

AYE THATS WHAT A MENT LOLOL

[Delboy]

Interesting to read that they are acting like owls and attacking at night time.

[geordie1234]

anno mate i watched a programme and they showed you footage of them hunting and eating pigeons at night and they even found some african grey tail feathers in the nest that was in london they were

[Blue Chequer Pied]

I welcome this and think this kind of info could work against the over-protection of raptors. When you read some of the birds they have preyed on they are themselves dwindling and becoming rare and if they peregrines are found to be guilting of depleating their numbers they will come under pressure and the protection may be relaxed (hopefully).

 

Interesting that they have started hunting nocturnally though!

[Guest Hjaltland]

Thankfully we dont have many problems with peregrines here ... but check out this pic my son took the other weekend of a merlin snacking on a goldcrest..

 

Merlin

 

http://www.davegiffo...p?showimage=408

 

 

PS hope you dont fine it too distressing..

[Guest Owen]

In a contribution on here we had a debate about birds that are classed as vermin. I said then that I think that those who like to shoot vermin should get rid of the ferel pigeons in the towns and cities. These ferel pigeons are an important source of food for the peregrines and I reckon that if they were removed the peregrines would be forced to leave the urban areas to hunt at least. Then the fact that they are taking genuinely rare birds would be bound to have a negitive affect on public opinion.

It is only just recently that the so called experts have learned that peregrines hunt by night and that they are taking such a wide variety of prey. Any time now they will also learn that peregrines are a hygenic time bomb. They leave rotting bits of their prey all over the place and frequently drop heads and feet to the ground. It must be unacceptable to have rotting bits of bird landing on our paved areas in the towns and cities, not to mention the rotting carcases that are left on and around the nest sites.