" I do not in any way condone cruelty to birds but consider that the
conservation benefits of banding and flagging far outweigh the
inconvenience and possible occasional detriment to a bird."
I think that some of us would want to put our names to an alternative
statement along the lines of:
"The conservation benefits of banding and flagging are obvious, but
such activities should always be conducted without harm or
inconvenience to any individual bird."
Surely the respective ethics statements of the banding socities are
closer to the latter than the former, one would hope so.
John Leonard
On 27/03/2008, Birding Services Brisbane <> wrote:
> Ian has mentioned two leg flags but no mention is made of colour of these
> flags. He also does not mention metal bands. If the flags could be
> observed well enough to see that there were two, the colour should be
> obvious. This would tell us where the bird was flagged. If it had a leg
> flag, it should also have had had a metal band. Is it possible that there
> was something else attached to the leg. I do not in any way condone cruelty
> to birds but consider that the conservation benefits of banding and flagging
> far outweigh the inconvenience and possible occasional detriment to a bird.
>
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> Roy Sonnenburg
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