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Monk parakeets have been deemed a potential threat to national infrastructure
By Will Finch
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Local press in Hertforshire reported last week that efforts to eradicate a small population of feral monk parakeets is already underway in Borehamwood
Details are gradually emerging of the Government’s culling of a small population of feral monk parakeets in the south-east of England.
Local press in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, reported last week that efforts to eradicate the bird’s population there were already underway.
Some locals complained that birds were apparently being killed rather than rehomed.
In a letter sent to a local resident from the Food and Environment Research Agency (the Government agency carrying out the work), director of operations Mike Wary clarified that: this is not a trapping and rehoming project. The aim is to eradicate the feral population of monk parakeets by the most humane method appropriate to individual situations.
Speaking to Shooting Times, a DEFRA spokesman confirmed that some of the birds captured in the operation at Borehamwood had been killed.
He said: “Four birds were trapped and killed. A further five birds were captured alive — one of these later died due to stress-related trauma, but the other four have been taken into holding facilities with the intention of rehoming them.”
The rest of this article appears in 8th June issue of Shooting Times.
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