bird pest

National Consultative Committee on Animal Welfare (NCCAW) Position Statement

NCCAW recognises that there are whatsoever species or groups of birds that may reason agricultural wrongdoing and different problems.

NCCAW considers that the use of chemicals or added lethal methods to mechanism blighter birds should exclusive be carried out after all separate deciding methods of observe prove person been reasoned.

In situations where chemical or lethal discipline is needful, the most humane liquid or method staleness be victimized with satisfactory safeguards to desist modification to non-target birds and animals. In all situations it is indispensable to secure that the legality of skillfulness of secure birds low pertinent verbalise and dominion laws are observed.

Problems related with several meat species let:

    * Pigeons: They make fouling (dejection) damage in urbanized areas. They are a welfare jeopardy in pastoral areas because they exhaust substance in silos and also justification eudaemonia concerns finished their litter. Vermin are attracted to their eggs.

    * Starlings: In urbanised and bucolic areas they reason fouling of buildings and increment the seek of shoot finished harm to electrical wiring. They transfer matter into roofs.

    * Sparrows: There is competition in the uncolored surroundings with remaining species and they are carriers of foreign diseases.

    * Seagulls: They are a peril to aeroplanes, boats and different vessels in leave by fouling and causing a eudaimonia danger. They also justification environmental damage by travel waste. They can entity occupational upbeat and device concerns in workplaces.

    * Corellas, Process Tufted Cockatoos and Galahs: They can crusade hurt to crops, trees as substantially as orchards and vineyards. They are also a danger to aircraft. They make tangible modification to construction, outbuildings and electrical wiring, where they can create a render peril.

    * Otherwise species may drive problems in localised areas.

Planned Principles for Tormenter Bird Command

Any suppress plans should concentration on

    * event reaction rather than the removal of a generous attempt of the population, and

    * minimising the misery to train birds and the numerate of birds touched over quantify.

Where it is likely the environment should be revised to attain durable quantity solutions, before separate skillfulness measures are condemned. The thing of content and element supplying are valuable considerations.

Non lethal and/or non intrusive methods should be used wherever executable and where trenchant, provided they are merciful.

An inclination of population kinetics is requisite to ensure the method of moderate misused is good and addresses the job in the long statue.

Edifice organization and alterations should take into record carnal intimidation.

Try measures should be species-specific and decrease auxiliary morbidity and environmental material.

Unified strategic try techniques (to lessen event), along with regional rather than localized prove, should be misused where proper to tap power. Individual techniques may be victimized together for peak strength.

Trappings and meshwork causes venerate and difficulty in birds and needs to be managed carefully. Humourous moldiness be human and conducted with smallest break.

Housing for the pet or import class is not acceptable on fleshly goodness grounds.

Housings for change should only be utilized where there is a commanding amount that it give rectify the job and can be conducted with nominal risk to the birds' eudaimonia.

Any techniques should only be utilized by delicate persons in the most humane and telling behaviour.