2006-07-05 05:04:41 · 11 answers · asked by smiley 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
yes a geordie free zone
2006-07-05 05:08:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is an old chestnut but here goes with reasons why the answer has to be no!
Apart from raiding nests the magpie carries out other good tasks such as cleaning up carrion. It is not alone in what it does. Crows, rooks, ravens and other birds also raid nests. - Slaughter them too?
Would it stop there. All the birds of prey kill a huge number of young and adult birds - Slaughter those too?
Owls fall into the same cattegory and they also eat small mammals - slaughter those too?
There are many wild animals that raid nests, Stoats, weasels, squirels, polecats, just to name a few - slaughter them too?
What about domestic cats that probably kill more young birds than magpies ever will - slaughter them too?
Not too many years back the Sparrow hawk was nearly exterminated because of the sort of culling you are calling for.
Birds and animals kill for food in a perfectly natural food chain. Far more birds are killed, some even being threatened by extinction from farming methods and mankinds building on their environments - start culling humans too?
Come to that if you cull magpies other birds and animals, even humans may pay the price as the value of their scavenging carrion is that it prevents disease.
The moment someone manages to justify culling one bird or animal, others will justify killing another until there are virtually no birds and wild animals left.
The really odd thing about calls to cull magpies is the number of times these have been made by clergymen, which strikes me as distinctly unchristian!
So no magpies should be left alone to live naturally.
Have you ever sat and really looked at a magpie? It is a glorious bird, not just black and white but with iridescent blues and greens sparkling of it. Intelligent eyes and proud bearing.
2006-07-05 05:38:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hehe a geordie free zone. brit humour i love my country. as for the magpies, no they shouldnt be culled. its a magpie eat smaller animal world out there. should we cull humans because they eat cows? foxes because they eat hedgehogs and birds? Its all part of the food chain, and its natural.
2006-07-05 05:14:02 · answer #3 · answered by afterbirth07 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't want to kill them, but it would be nice to shut them up for a while.
P.S. Don't upset Magpies as they have Magical powers
2006-07-05 05:16:20 · answer #4 · answered by Useless 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And we kill everything that moves! Should we be culled?
2006-07-05 05:11:08 · answer #5 · answered by TAFF 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says they are killing small birds.?...
2006-07-12 04:29:03 · answer #6 · answered by intruder3906 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lots of things kill each other everyday its called survival and they are all part of the food chain
2006-07-12 01:04:29 · answer #7 · answered by gin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's just nature for you. It's not up to you to sort this one out. Don't mess with Mother Nature.............
2006-07-05 05:12:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they are lovely animals!!!!!!!!!!!!
why should we interfer the balance will go back in the end shouldnt kill cute little animals
2006-07-05 05:09:10 · answer #9 · answered by >darkangel< 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i hate them 2 but leave them
2006-07-10 10:09:50 · answer #10 · answered by Chesh » 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋