Great news. The petition to reduce the use of bird deterrent spikes on buildings has now almost reached 2000 supporters!
 
Help get the petition to fly higher by sharing it with your friends.
 
https://www.change.org/ReduceBirdDeterrentsWales
 
The photo in the links show birds can get caught and die because of unnecessary cruel bird deterrent spike strips on buildings.
 
I recently saw a poor Herring Gull dangling dead from a roof top caught by a strip of spiked bird deterrents. I felt I had to do something. That’s why I started the petition.
 
Share the petition (copy and paste) using the link above with friends or more widely on social media. Add a note asking people to please sign and share the petition themselves. If you’ve already been so kind as to have already shared it please consider sharing again. It may find people at a more convenient time. Thank you.
 
https://www.change.org/ReduceBirdDeterrentsWales
 
Birds don’t deserve to die because of these ill placed cruel bird deterrent measures. Help stop the killing of endangered birds such as the Herring Gull and other birds who simply want a place to land and thrive.
 
Rooftop birds like crows and gulls are super bright!
 
Many birds such as corvids (crow family), pigeons, gull and owls are as cognitively capable as monkeys and even apes. Corvids are particularly smart. Its long been known that they can use tools, recognize faces and even leave gifts for people they like. Birds have smaller neurons (signal pathways) than those in mammalian brains, but have many more information-processing neuronal units in their pallium (layers of grey and white matter covering the cerebrum) than the equivalent-sized mammalian cortices.
 
A recent study (Nieder et al) published in the journal Science involved studying two carrion crows called Ozzie and Glenn. The study showed that crows are capable of thinking about their own thoughts as they work out problems. This level of self-awareness was previously believed to signify higher intelligence that only humans and perhaps a few other mammals possess. It turns out a crow knows what a crow knows, and so it may be the case that they are sentient beings. The bird pallium has neurons that represent what it perceives – a hallmark of consciousness.
 
In other words the type of higher intelligence crows exhibit is similar to the way humans solve problems. Corvids it turns out, file away relevant knowledge and then explore these filed banks of ‘known information” to arrive at a thought through cation or solution.
 
3 things you can also do to help:-
 
Tweet this update or share the petition on social media using the hashtags Nature, birds, NoToBirdSpikes or LetTheBirdsFly
 
Use a bird image you have taken and post to social media with the petition link asking people to sign and share (use the same hashtags above). Add your own words saying why you think birds should not get hurt or killed by bird deterrents.
If you have helpful contacts or ideas on how this petition can be won, please kindly let me know at @joboxer12 . Thank you.
 
Thanks so much for all your support and let’s get zooming higher!!!!!!