14-05-2016, 01:11 PM
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Re: Extinction
[QUOTE=Hanfonius;904967]When I was a lad, the summer skies were darkened by giant flocks of peewits, also known as lapwings.Now there are none.
The same with starlings, yellowhammers, goldfinches, long-tailed tits, wrens, kingfishers, and many more.
I would fall asleep at night listening to the mournful sounds of the curlew, or the booming calls of the bittern. We had owls nesting in the poplar trees of our garden.
They have all gone. The tapping of the woodpeckers, the sound of the cuckoo - they are only in my memory.[/QUOTE]
It is very sad, but at least your memory hasn't gone with them, Hans.
14-05-2016, 06:30 PM
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Re: Extinction
Originally Posted by Nom
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Ive seen a few including the Thrush Nightingale, in places like Malta these are blasted from the skies by bastards with guns in the name of sport. Anything that flies is fair game, Turtle Doves are another species these murdering scum think is ok to destroy.I have friends that go out and confront them during migration times, and a movement to stop people holidaying to put pressure on the governments has been active for a while. Its common on many regions of the continent, shot for sport not for food,
16-05-2016, 04:20 PM
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Re: Extinction
Originally Posted by Hanfonius
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When I was a lad, the summer skies were darkened by giant flocks of peewits .....
Met quite a few effwits over the years though.
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