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How many do species of birds live in the U.K?

How can I stop birds which have migrated to the UK eating food which I have put out for the indigenous birds?

  • While feeding the ducks at the weekend, I noticed some birds which migrate here for the summer floating on the pond. I tried to aim my bread at the indigenous species but these immigrant types just piled in and helped themselves. They will probably start laying eggs here next and claiming the right to stay here, or taking council nests and getting loads of seed handouts. What can be done about these scroungers?

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    I think you need to rant and rave on a forum like this about illegal immigrant birds taking the bread from the beaks of our own birds. Quite ignoring the fact that the immigrant birds would like the opportunity to work hard singing, dispersing seeds and pollinating plants, while the idle British ducks just want to bob up and down on the water and accept hand-outs of Mother's Pride, rather than do an honest day's work. But don't they quack if they see the foreign birds getting anything!!

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Put a sign up using strong language and enforce some kind of a fine system. ;-)

Mucky

You can't. In any case, most of the summer birds we get here in UK migrate from elsewhere. Here in London we get hundreds of thousands of Swifts overhead - usually from late May until the end of September. Can't miss them - they spend most of their time screaming overhead as they catch food on the wing - horrid insects. Any one daft enough to land in my garden will get eaten by my two marauding pirate Magpies. They're busy nest building at the moment. Well, ripping twigs from last year's nest and building a new one in another one of my trees. My Magpies ate all the sparrows last year, so heaven knows what they'll eat this year - the neighbour's cat would be a good idea!

CLIVE H

hehehehehe....I hope your joking, if you are, your very funny, thanks for the laugh....(wink)

angela R

I've long been lobbying for Avian Passport controls, and I can only sympathise with your plight. There are theories that it balances itself out though, as apparently in early autumn our mallards and teals head off to mallorca and the algarve to steal local fish supplies from the mouths of baby seagulls.

Heathen

If you were in the US, I'm sure some congressman would want to hold hearings on this. I had a similar problem. We have birdfeeders in our yard, and there is also a squirrel around who eats the bird food. My feeling.. he's hungry,too.

TedEx

What do these alien birds look like, are you sure they are not spies disguised as birds?

Barking mad

did they arrive in crates in a lorry or did they use the avion route. What nationality were their skwarks

Realist

lol.well done,

poo stripe

Is it illegal for immigrant swans to attack the queen's dinner swans?

singlecell_amoeba

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