The petition to reduce the use of cruel bird deterrents on buildings has zoomed past 38,000 signatures. Thanks to people like you, the petition which aims to stop the cruelty caused by rooftop deterrents such as mesh netting and metal spikes is now in the news.
Decision makers are starting to take notice. Geraint Davies MP has agreed to a meeting to discuss the petition. I hope to hear from Wales’s Minister for Climate Change (and my local Member of Senedd), Julie James. The ripples you make are growing into waves… (Image: kindly donated by ©Debbie Geraghty)
Please sign and continue to share the petition widely with friends and on social media. The petition link is below.
#Nature #birds #NoToBirdSpikes #BanBirdNetting #ReduceBirdDeterrents #LetTheBirdsFly #Biodiversity #BirdWatching #NatureLovers #Beauty #Cities #Planning #Architecture #Building #Roofers #Gardening #EverySmallAction #Holidays #Coast #Gulls
Help stop the death and injury to rooftop birds
I started the Change.Org petition after seeing a dead Herring Gull seemingly killed by bird deterrent spikes on a rooftop.
Having grown up near the coast, I was shocked to find out that though Herring Gulls still seem common, their populations have actually plummeted by a staggering 50 per cent just since 1970. Now defined as vulnerable; these rooftop birds that enliven many of our cities, and our holidays by the sea are now on the red list of birds of conservation concern. These rooftop birds are not the only ones affected by these cruel bird deterrents. For example endangered Kittiwakes are red listed, the Lesser Black-backed Gull is also on the amber list and Swallows and Swifts are now declining.
Please share the news coverage with friends and on social media to raise awareness. Tell people the petition is on Change.Org and include the petition link if possible. Thank you. News links below.
#News #Nature #birds #NoToBirdSpikes #BanBirdNetting #ReduceBirdDeterrents #LetTheBirdsFly #Biodiversity #BirdWatching #NatureLovers #Beauty #Cities #Planning #Architecture #Building #Roofers #Gardening #EverySmallAction #Holidays #Coast #Gulls
Rooftop birds like gulls, pigeons, birds of prey, crows, swifts and swallows are all vulnerable to being injured or killed by the bird netting and spikes sadly still used on our buildings and garden walls. Birds don’t deserve to be cruelly killed or injured. In the face of the climate and biodiversity crises let’s help tip the balance the right way in favour of #nature and #climate.
Every small action we take; even to save a seagull, pigeon or swift helps!
Sinking like the Titanic?
Numbers of many common birds are sinking like the Titanic. For gulls; their food sources of fish are rapidly being depleted with increasing demand for seafood, destructive bottom trawling, pollution incidents & now potentially shifts in the distribution of some of their food due to shifting weather patterns because of climate change.
Fanfare for the common bird. Save the seagull?
I’ve been struck by the mixed reaction to gulls from those commenting on the news coverage. It’s definitely a 'marmite'; love them or don’t care at all for them reaction. People either really care for birds in general and these, for them, include ‘common’ birds like gulls, crows and pigeons. Others point to bird mess, the understandable aggression of birds during breeding season, stealing of ice creams, the noise they make & that in their minds there are they think ‘way too many of them’.
We humans depend on the incredible diversity of nature for our very existence. I know this as a former gardener as I have noticed how it is affecting our food production. Many of us are now beginning to experience the effects of climate change & biodiversity loss. I’m reminded that all this diverse nature, however common, is part of a bigger jigsaw worldwide. Each species, or puzzle piece, contributes to the whole; often in ways we have just begun to understand. It is this that makes this crazy planet we live on thrive to sustain us.
Let’s leave a functioning planet behind for our children. And let’s include the squawking gulls and other common birds of our rooftops too.
3 suggestions you can also do to help
Join the Facebook group:Rooftop Bird Club
If you have photographic evidence of injury or death to birds caused by bird deterrents please consider sharing photos with the petition link on social media with your reaction and the relevant hashtags. If you are on Twitter do DM me with any images at @joboxer12.
If you have constructive ideas, research or helpful contacts please kindly let me know also at @joboxer12 or at the Rooftop Bird Club.
Let's make waves!