Outrageous Curlew Slaughter

I doubt very much that any of the Animals you refer to will ever be ‘at risk’ curlews are declining yet are killed for fun☹️

Do you partake of any of those you numbered, CJ? 

....just asking

Yes....a great many! 

I have no issues with eating meat, was simply pointing out there was some cultural assassination on going "...Barbaric Frenchies!"

...and that he without sin should cast the first stone! 

Surely even you can see the difference between raising and killing animals, including birds, for food and the wanton slaughter of wild birds for the fun of it!!

Yes, we were ignorant and thus educated about supermarket fuels and additives, Now it's 'our' time to right the wrong and pay back the compliment in the name of those defenceless truely wild creatures in what really is their own environment! 

I can report good news just seen that the LPO  same as RSPB have been to the highest court in France have put an immediate ban on the hunting of Curlew.

Good news RK but what reasons did the brave hunters give for wanting to kill these birds in the first place? Are they decimating crops or a carrier of deadly disease to humans or is it just for fun?

That I could not answer. I have fond memories of these birds as a child in Shropshire and they used to nest in our surrounding fields and their calls, land was a bit different conditions in those days.

• What great news RK.  All we need to do now is stop Middle Eastern countries killing approx 4.5 million birds a year, stop the Maltese killing Turtle Doves allegedly mistaking them for Snipe which they are licensed to hunt.  Not forgetting the people in Britain who kill BofP

Agree with you OP.  We did have 1 pair of Turtle Doves in the next field this year but they had gone after 6 weeks then appeared again next to OH's shed and wonder what calling and they were trying to compete with the Nightingales.

As to Stumpy think another lizard had taken over his stretch on the terrace as I have not seen today.

Have a good trip to France tomorrow, we are off to the Dordogne to a site overlooking at Beynac Chateau and will look to see what is about in the area might even see some terns on the river as they have been there before.