SRRC
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I'm another one who used to have one or two hare every 10 acres and no buzzards, now we have no hare and lots of buzzards.
In ye olde days maybe.Boom or bust, too many predators and they almost remove one prey, the predator then dies from starvation hopefully allowing the prey to rebuild numbers and the cycle repeats, as long as one doesn't die out completely
We had no lapwing chucks raised fir years now. Buzzards kill them all.Of course it is. Are they really doing any harm?
Like that lighthouse keepers cat that wiped out all the birds of one species on its island? Something like 60 percent of extinctions are by animals.
What wormers do you use on your cattle?We had no lapwing chucks raised fir years now. Buzzards kill them all.
That's harm to me...
Ivomec.What wormers do you use on your cattle?
Eat all sorts, including lapwing chicks, what's your point?You do know that Buzzards eat earthworms don't you?
Look it up.Ivomec.
But lapwings don't nest on the grassland.
They nest on the arable fields. So irrelevant..
Plus I seen the buzzards taking the chicks.
So ivomec increases buzzard numbers and makes them eat more lapwings?Look it up.
No, it's thought to persist in the soil and reduce invertebrate numbers which the lapwings and other waders feed on.So ivomec increases buzzard numbers and makes them eat more lapwings?
But like I said, lapwings never nested on the grass land. Never seen them on the grassland. Only ever on the arable land.No, it's thought to persist in the soil and reduce invertebrate numbers which the lapwings and other waders feed on.
I'm not saying buzzards aren't predators or that predation doesn't happen, but it's not usually the cause of species declines except where you have introduced or invasive species dominating an ecosystem, or something like a domestic cat which gets fed whether it kills or not, so has all the time in the world to seek out that last bird or mammal without getting hungry.