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What about slaughter of ruddy ducks,Kate?

10:39am Monday 11th April 2011 in Read

SIR – I was surprised to read Kate Humble’s letter ‘Let’s do all we can to help save nature’ (Worcester News, March 29) for the RSPB’s Stepping Up For Nature campaign.

It seems a strange idea that the RSPB wants us all to help save nature, when the RSPB still continues to support the slaughter of the ruddy duck in this country. This breed of duck has been killed in the hundreds on many reserves simply because it breeds with the white headed duck in Spain (the white headed duck is in decline in Spain).

I stopped my membership of the RSPB many years ago because of these terrible killings.

I this they should call themselves the Royal Society for the Protection of Some Birds.

MAXINE BURGESS
Malvern

Comments(2)

tub_thumper says...
7:14pm Mon 11 Apr 11

The mating of the ruddy duck with their close genetic kin, the white-headed duck, is nature's way of ensuring their survival. For some reason, the RSPB consider the ducklings to be ‘impure’. They won't tolerate this mixing of blood, despite opposition from a large number of their own supporters and the RSPCA. The killing of ruddy ducks is yet another example of the arrogance of some old world ‘conservationistsâ
€™ who believe that they can shoot and poison their way to environmental harmony. During trial culls, which took place between 1993 and 2002, a significant number of birds died (many were shot on their nests and, according to a government report, some were shot as many as 13 times and took up to two hours to die). That’s the ‘real’ RSPB for you!

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Maggie Would says...
9:42pm Mon 11 Apr 11

I don't know about ruddy ducks, it's blooming pigeons that are the problem here. And cursed crows.

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