The Rook is nearly totally destroyed due to the ignorance of the regional councils in this country!
So many have not researched the way of the Crow
This magical ebony bird has been needlessly destroyed in a manner so cruel ..the nests are poisoned from helicopters here ..the poor Rook then spends the next three days dying a torturous death..where does protection of cruelty to animals come in?
Why is it encouraged in places to keep Rooks and here without any background research or proof regional councils can through a dangerous poison around to eradicate these supremely intelligent crows...Survival of the cutest
Forest & Bird’s Lower North Island Field Officer Aalbert Rebergen
Avian citizenry in this country is a mind-boggling, byzantine thing - something that is given and then snatched away at the whim of government based on fickle, flimsy criteria.
Take for example – the rook – an introduced bird that was brought here to control insects and remind settlers of home.
It comes from a family of hooligans - such as jays and crows – and shares their hoarse cry and plucky demeanour.
Reviled by many, this bird has been the target of much persecution, and many would like to see it wiped from the face of New Zealand care of a few humanely-aimed bullets.
Needless to say, they’re at the top of the list of regional council’s undesirables – up there with magpies.
Sure, they cause a little damage to agricultural crops (they’re so smart they squirrel walnuts), but so do introduced birds like yellowhammer, goldfinches, chaffinches, redpolls and sparrows.
It sure makes you wonder what Orwellian scripts these councils are following – colourful and pretty: good; dark & screechy: bad?
Like the rook – the squawky spur-wing plover (a native bird!) too has fallen out of favour with the government, and has now been shifted to the unprotected list because of its danger to airspace.
Does this bird deserve to be on this ‘hate list’ - why don’t we just lift protection within two kilometres of an airport, or add some deterrents like some well-placed shubbery?
The long and short of this is that we’re essentially judging avian citizenship on set of rather thinly-veiled superficial characteristics – their good looks, their cuteness and the beauty of their song.
There seems to be a serious double standard going on here, and as a rook-lover and spur-wing plover enthusiast, I think we need to pour some light on our selective morality when it comes to what’s deemed a pest, and what’s not.
Lets give these birds some clemency please!
Sign the petition to save these magnificent creatures!!
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
January 26, 2020
January 25, 2020
We are approaching five hundred signatures and reaching this threshold will provide the necessary weight to our upcoming discussions with council representatives. Please direct your contacts to this page today so we can secure the momentum required to challenge these cruel eradication practices.
Reached 100 supporters
November 11, 2019
November 9, 2019
We are approaching one hundred signatures and require an additional push to reach this milestone before our next communication with the regional councils. Please circulate this link through your personal networks to help expand our reach.
203 Comments
If we do not take care of such birds, you will not only have an ecological issue of losing an important species, in the way opportune feeding and despising of carrion, you will also be increasing the desanitation of the area. No good comes to areas where there are a lack of Corvids.
In Europa, there has been plenty of research that shows that the bird helps a farmer more than the other way around. They are intelligent beings that cannot sign their name under a petition, so I will have to do it. Save the rook!
rooks eat insects. What are you doing to control insects after you kill the rooks? Even worse is using poison because it will poison everything, even the soil and ground water. This is just the worst!
These are a unique bird, have not been breeding in numbers but because not native are now targeted with a death sentence. I object to any eradication poison programs being run by our government.
Typical Neanderthal thinking in NZ councils. If it's a problem that is misunderstood, just get rid of it, kill it. This bird is a social and intelligent bird of the Corvid family and should be treasured and monitored properly not slaughtered in humanely.
GOD-willing, the very best, comprehensive, and enforceable animal welfare laws and regulations shall very soon become prevalent throughout the world.
Yes l notice there are a drop in magpies morporks well as hawks in our area of Manaia Coromandel l notice our Bush is quite as well same as the kereru and tui useless I notice there is a drop in kereru magpies and tui in my area manaia Coromandel use to see them on the the kowhai trees beside my home l notice with in the last three years there a decline in the native species
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The Rook is nearly totally destroyed due to the ignorance of the regional councils in this country!
So many have not researched the way of the Crow
This magical ebony bird has been needlessly destroyed in a manner so cruel ..the nests are poisoned from helicopters here ..the poor Rook then spends the next three days dying a torturous death..where does protection of cruelty to animals come in?
Why is it encouraged in places to keep Rooks and here without any background research or proof regional councils can through a dangerous poison around to eradicate these supremely intelligent crows...Survival of the cutest
Forest & Bird’s Lower North Island Field Officer Aalbert Rebergen
Avian citizenry in this country is a mind-boggling, byzantine thing - something that is given and then snatched away at the whim of government based on fickle, flimsy criteria.
Take for example – the rook – an introduced bird that was brought here to control insects and remind settlers of home.
It comes from a family of hooligans - such as jays and crows – and shares their hoarse cry and plucky demeanour.
Reviled by many, this bird has been the target of much persecution, and many would like to see it wiped from the face of New Zealand care of a few humanely-aimed bullets.
Needless to say, they’re at the top of the list of regional council’s undesirables – up there with magpies.
Sure, they cause a little damage to agricultural crops (they’re so smart they squirrel walnuts), but so do introduced birds like yellowhammer, goldfinches, chaffinches, redpolls and sparrows.
It sure makes you wonder what Orwellian scripts these councils are following – colourful and pretty: good; dark & screechy: bad?
Like the rook – the squawky spur-wing plover (a native bird!) too has fallen out of favour with the government, and has now been shifted to the unprotected list because of its danger to airspace.
Does this bird deserve to be on this ‘hate list’ - why don’t we just lift protection within two kilometres of an airport, or add some deterrents like some well-placed shubbery?
The long and short of this is that we’re essentially judging avian citizenship on set of rather thinly-veiled superficial characteristics – their good looks, their cuteness and the beauty of their song.
There seems to be a serious double standard going on here, and as a rook-lover and spur-wing plover enthusiast, I think we need to pour some light on our selective morality when it comes to what’s deemed a pest, and what’s not.
Lets give these birds some clemency please!
Sign the petition to save these magnificent creatures!!
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
January 26, 2020
January 25, 2020
We are approaching five hundred signatures and reaching this threshold will provide the necessary weight to our upcoming discussions with council representatives. Please direct your contacts to this page today so we can secure the momentum required to challenge these cruel eradication practices.
Reached 100 supporters
November 11, 2019
November 9, 2019
We are approaching one hundred signatures and require an additional push to reach this milestone before our next communication with the regional councils. Please circulate this link through your personal networks to help expand our reach.
203 Comments
I am a fierce advocate for native birds but in saying that many introduced birds have knitted well into the native fabric of Aotearoa. They should be ignored rather than exterminated.
If we do not take care of such birds, you will not only have an ecological issue of losing an important species, in the way opportune feeding and despising of carrion, you will also be increasing the desanitation of the area. No good comes to areas where there are a lack of Corvids.
In Europa, there has been plenty of research that shows that the bird helps a farmer more than the other way around. They are intelligent beings that cannot sign their name under a petition, so I will have to do it. Save the rook!
rooks eat insects. What are you doing to control insects after you kill the rooks? Even worse is using poison because it will poison everything, even the soil and ground water. This is just the worst!
These are a unique bird, have not been breeding in numbers but because not native are now targeted with a death sentence. I object to any eradication poison programs being run by our government.
Typical Neanderthal thinking in NZ councils. If it's a problem that is misunderstood, just get rid of it, kill it. This bird is a social and intelligent bird of the Corvid family and should be treasured and monitored properly not slaughtered in humanely.
GOD-willing, the very best, comprehensive, and enforceable animal welfare laws and regulations shall very soon become prevalent throughout the world.
Yes l notice there are a drop in magpies morporks well as hawks in our area of Manaia Coromandel l notice our Bush is quite as well same as the kereru and tui useless I notice there is a drop in kereru magpies and tui in my area manaia Coromandel use to see them on the the kowhai trees beside my home l notice with in the last three years there a decline in the native species
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I am a fierce advocate for native birds but in saying that many introduced birds have knitted well into the native fabric of Aotearoa. They should be ignored rather than exterminated.