By Melanie Hall
3:04PM GMT 02 Dec 2014
The video, created by hunter James Marchington for the Fieldsports Channel, shows him shooting ring-necked parakeets after creating a fake bird to entice them.
The clip, named Shooting Parakeets in London, is part of a series of videos providing advice on shooting animals.
According to the online description of the video on YouTube, “The flocks of ring-necked parakeets that ravage the fruit farms and vineyards of the south-east of England are at last under threat.
“They went on the quarry list in 2013. Now they are in the telescopic sights of pest controllers, including the owner of The Bird Table Of Doom himself, James Marchington.”
A spokesman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds criticised the video’s creators for glorifying hunting.
He told the Standard: “I’d urge others not to follow this advice. Those who act like this could find themselves with a criminal record. Under the general licence, there is a defence for the ultimate sanction ONLY if crops or public health are at risk. The presenter says the birds are damaging his fruit tree.
“The tree is leafless with no sign of any crop. It is clearly not a commercial operation. He even lures the poor parakeet in with food. Under the general licence, if you can’t prove there is just cause for your actions, you’re not safe from prosecution; especially if you’ve not explored alternative forms of control.”
He continued: “London is not the Wild West. London is a densely packed place where no one should be firing a weapon from their window. I would seriously hope that all right-minded, experienced marksmen, would support my call for this sort of behaviour to stop and for the video to be removed.”
Parakeets, which originate from the foothills of the Himalayas, have soared in number in London over the last two decades and they can now be found across the wider south east, especially large parts of Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
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