Talkback: Swifts

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• denise butcher Posts: 133

  August 2012

  thank you everyone, who is the ideal people to complain to...?the council, police or rspca, or all three!

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• sotongeoff Posts: 9,802

  August 2012

  This is what Dove says up-thread-the RSPCA are sometimes slow to act -perhaps all three is the way to go

  Dovefromabove wrote (see)

  If this is in the UK then what he's doing is illegal - see here http://www.naturenet.net/law/birds.html 

  his actions should be reported to the police.

  Most Police Authorities have a Wildlife Crime Liaison Officer or even a whole squad or similar.  

  The mud nests under the eaves of houses will belong to house martins, not swifts which are more likely to nest under the roof tiles, but it is illegal to destroy martin or any other nests.

  
  
  

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