Cage & Aviary Birds

Editor’s Letter

were taken to RSPCA centres... where [they] were rehabilitated before being released. The cross-bred and domestic birds were successfully rehomed.” (News, page 2.) Blimey, has common sense broken out in the RSPCA? A few years ago I wrote an some stock that wasn’t fit for the wild life. As for the finches they released: were they in fact captive-bred or “from Nature”? We’d need to ask the regulars at The Bell in Leytonstone, if we could catch up with them. But I think I know what they’d say, anyhow.

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