The window of my bedroom opens to gigantic fig trees hosting fruit-eating bats. Lately, they share the trees with noisy green-yellow parrots, which wake up early in the morning and noisily organize themselves into fast-flying air squads. Then disappear for the day and return from the office after 4 PM. The pigeons, normally found spending the day in the sun courting females, are absent. It is winter and raining.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds displays an uncomfortable acceptance of the licence to kill these pests. “We can see why Natural England has put these species on the general licence, for good conservation reasons,” said Dr Mark Avery, the RSPB’s conservation director. In Argentina, there were official campaigns to exterminate the "loro barranquero" which looks exactly like these parrots.
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