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Dorothee
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| 12:38 PM Sep 28 2013

Dorothee

Germany

It’s getting colder outside. Many birds – especially waterfowls and those that feed on insects – now are heading towards warmer countries like Egypt. That means that now all of Europe’s wild songbirds are going to leave and many of them are heading towards Egypt.
The German, Austrian and Swiss aid-organization NABU is worried because of this natural phenomenon. Scientific research of past years has proven that in this country a high number of birds either gets killed or captured and sold as pets. Either way they can’t help to keep the population of their species alive anymore.
To solve this problem NABU now started a petition that is going to be sent to the government of Egypt and in order to gain more people who would sign they also created an English version of this petition for international lovers of songbirds.
Please feel free to check out:
“https://www.nabu.de/imperia/md/content/nabude/vogelschutz/petition-egypt040713.pdf” – for more concrete information about this petition – and “https://www.nabu.de/tiereundpflanzen/voegel/zugvoegel/jagd/aegypten/15711.html#englisch” for the petition itself. Thank you! Have a nice day!

| 01:31 PM Jul 09 2013

Dorothee

Germany

However just avoiding products that were made by using wild songbirds – like stuffed songbirds, meals that contain the meat or the eggs of these animals or even just living captured songbirds – would help. Most serious sellers should be able to tell you whether or not the animal was captured in the wild and what exactly this or that product contains.

| 01:18 PM Jul 09 2013

Dorothee

Germany

Nightingale reed warbler, medium tree – finch, nihoa finch, gough finch – just to name a few – are four of the many specimens of critically endangered specimens songbirds. They are caught in the wild and then sold – even though in many countries it is illegal to sell or to own animals captured from the wild. In some countries people even find these little birds delicious. Sometimes we also disturb nesting birds unintentionally. Even our pet cats – which we usually love a lot and consider as cuddly animals – are responsible for this decline. At the same time wild songbirds are so useful. Scientists say that even though some of us don’t realize that, their melodies calm us, they kill flies – some of which spread diseases – and many predators need them as an important source of food, because not only the living birds, but also their eggs are eatable. Some animals can even feed on their carcasses.
If you want to help – and of course also can help -, please support IUCN or BirdLife International.

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