It warms my heart to hear that more people then me still genuinely care abbout our bewinged friends, i so badly whish i could come and see the exhibision, but i live in a different country.
I would like to say I have two cats. They are now 12 and 9 years old and not once have they caught a bird. However I have had plenty of rats and mice in my home. In fact my younger cat falls asleep on top on my arbour where there is a bird feeder and my cat ignores them and the birds ignore him. Although one did once try to pull some fur out of him which didn’t please him very much. Now after brushing my cats especially the older who has long fur I place the fur outside in a cage in February March April time so the birds can build their nests with the fur. This video was very interesting but need more detail of the Mallard Air Sac????
About the cats, my experience is that it very much appends on the individual and their future behavior tend to show on them allredy as kittens, perhaps those instincts are inheritted, that would explain why some kittend does or does not show interest in birds. I like cats since i live in an old farmhouse there are lot of cats around here it is good if they take rodents so it's not that, but i am also a huge bird lover, and unlike rodents birds serve a lot of important roles as pest controllers, etc, so i fully understand the dielmma talked about here. (Sorry for my English it is not my native language)
@@sheep1eweno I fully understand. I was just stating that not all cats catch birds. However there is a particular cat who lives near and he catches pigeons I would hate to know what his house looks like when he takes them home to his mummy. He used to hide in a bush in my garden but I placed bells all over the bush and never saw him in my garden again.
@@suegermaine5730 Yes, i was just thinking load there i think, it is a reflection i had since a friend introduced me to her kittens long time ago and we diskussed this when played with them and they wanted to play with different types of objects, I can imagine that pigeon mess, my neighbor has a big tomcat and he say he bring home the remians of gigantic wet watermoles from the drainage ditch of the farmers field outside my house as presents for them... Ha ha
Although I admire this work and the rationale behind the exhibition, might it be still hetter to spend the money on conserving the living species? Otherwise the time will come (frighteningly soon with the state of nature in our critically depleted UK habitats) when only the stuffed and mounted specimens of the birds exist and it will be too late.
It warms my heart to hear that more people then me still genuinely care abbout our bewinged friends, i so badly whish i could come and see the exhibision, but i live in a different country.
I would like to say I have two cats. They are now 12 and 9 years old and not once have they caught a bird. However I have had plenty of rats and mice in my home. In fact my younger cat falls asleep on top on my arbour where there is a bird feeder and my cat ignores them and the birds ignore him. Although one did once try to pull some fur out of him which didn’t please him very much. Now after brushing my cats especially the older who has long fur I place the fur outside in a cage in February March April time so the birds can build their nests with the fur. This video was very interesting but need more detail of the Mallard Air Sac????
About the cats, my experience is that it very much appends on the individual and their future behavior tend to show on them allredy as kittens, perhaps those instincts are inheritted, that would explain why some kittend does or does not show interest in birds. I like cats since i live in an old farmhouse there are lot of cats around here it is good if they take rodents so it's not that, but i am also a huge bird lover, and unlike rodents birds serve a lot of important roles as pest controllers, etc, so i fully understand the dielmma talked about here. (Sorry for my English it is not my native language)
@@sheep1eweno I fully understand. I was just stating that not all cats catch birds. However there is a particular cat who lives near and he catches pigeons I would hate to know what his house looks like when he takes them home to his mummy. He used to hide in a bush in my garden but I placed bells all over the bush and never saw him in my garden again.
@@suegermaine5730 Yes, i was just thinking load there i think, it is a reflection i had since a friend introduced me to her kittens long time ago and we diskussed this when played with them and they wanted to play with different types of objects, I can imagine that pigeon mess, my neighbor has a big tomcat and he say he bring home the remians of gigantic wet watermoles from the drainage ditch of the farmers field outside my house as presents for them... Ha ha
Although I admire this work and the rationale behind the exhibition, might it be still hetter to spend the money on conserving the living species? Otherwise the time will come (frighteningly soon with the state of nature in our critically depleted UK habitats) when only the stuffed and mounted specimens of the birds exist and it will be too late.