Simon Mustoe wrote:
>I understand your concerns to some extent about bird
banding. I would rather
>not discuss the ethical issues on this forum as I do not
believe that it is
>the place.
Banding has been discussed here often enough in the past, and
doubtlessly will be again.
I too share some of Marilyn's concerns about banding for its
own sake, but I fail to see what the Little Tern deaths have
to do with banding or leg-flagging. The inference I got from
Jim Reside's original posting was that the terns (and various
other animals) had been killed by the hailstorm - ie.
clobbered by a large lumps of ice, and lots of it. Banded or
otherwise, birds nesting on the ground in the open are
clearly quite vulnerable to such extreme meteorological
phenomena.
Cheers -- Lawrie
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