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Originally Posted by
Aaldtimer
We don't really want them...murderous to song bird populations![disgust]
Magpies are only doing what they need to do to survive, it's humans that are the murderers of song bird populations with their relentless destruction of wild habitat, the spraying of insects with pesticides and the killing of wild flowers and vegetation with herbicides. The wet meadows, the bogs and heaths, the hedgerows have nearly all gone, these wild places used to support all sorts of different flowers and plants which in turn attracted insects which the birds used to feed on. Because these habitats are no longer with us neither is the wildlife it used to support, this includes the song birds.
Don't blame the Magpies for the demise of our song birds, we are the cause !!!