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Originally Posted by AbAngler
Ok, now I'm really confused!
I've always like them, so I was surprised when the old guy said he shoots them.
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LOL yeah it's clear as mud to me too.
I also see no reason, or should I say, justification for shooting any Blackbird species.
There always used to be Blackbirds around the farm when I was growing up.
Us kids hunted and trapped as many as we could, because we were told they are pests.
But thinking back, I can not recall them doing any damage or of them bothering any livestock.
The only reason I can imagine that they might be considered pests would be their calls and poop on everything around the barnyard.
A large flock could be quite loud and they can whitewash a tractor in short order. But chickens do a lot more white washing in my experience. They make more noise too. So where is the justification ?
I can see it down in the USA where the form flocks numbering in the millions.
But here, a few hundred is a huge flock.
As Pudelpointer said, the small amount of grain or chicken feed they might eat is nothing, even with a flock of a hundred or so.
A bear would eat more in ten minutes then a flock of that size would eat in a couple of days.