Coot

[Karl Daw 14]

Guys whats are the views on shooting coot ,its just the water bailiff has asked me to get rid of some and the cormorants if i see any,i know about these license but not sure how to get them,or how much they are?

[Ratsmasher 36]

speak to natural england about the cormorantsand coots are a gamebird and have a season like ducks and stuff

have a look here

[ArchieHood 3,692]

The water bailiff would have to apply for a license to shoot the Cormorants.The season for Coots is Sep 1 - Jan 31 in England and Wales.

[paulus 26]

if a license is issue for cormorants it will only cover a specified number http://www.environme...tors/32665.aspx

[tegater 789]

if a license is issue for cormorants it will only cover a specified number http://www.environme...tors/32665.aspx

I wonder who counts them

[milegajo 595]

Cormorants I think I can understand due to eating fish?

 

But why kill the Coots?

 

"These birds are omnivorous, eating mainly plant material, but also small animals and eggs. They are aggressively territorial during the breeding season, but are otherwise often found in sizeable flocks on the shallow vegetated lakes they prefer.

At least some Coots have difficulty feeding a large family of fledglings on the tiny shrimp and insects that they collect. So after about three days they start attacking their own chicks when they beg for food. After a short while, these attacks concentrate on the weaker chicks, who eventually give up begging and die. The coot may eventually raise only two or three out of nine fledglings"

 

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coot

 

Interesting behaviour! Though I don't see how that warrants a contract and death penalty.

[paulus 26]

if a license is issue for cormorants it will only cover a specified number http://www.environme...tors/32665.aspx

I wonder who counts them

no fooker but you have to keep the right side of the law

[paulus 26]

Cormorants I think I can understand due to eating fish?

 

But why kill the Coots?

 

"These birds are omnivorous, eating mainly plant material, but also small animals and eggs. They are aggressively territorial during the breeding season, but are otherwise often found in sizeable flocks on the shallow vegetated lakes they prefer.

At least some Coots have difficulty feeding a large family of fledglings on the tiny shrimp and insects that they collect. So after about three days they start attacking their own chicks when they beg for food. After a short while, these attacks concentrate on the weaker chicks, who eventually give up begging and die. The coot may eventually raise only two or three out of nine fledglings"

 

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coot

 

Interesting behaviour! Though I don't see how that warrants a contract and death penalty.

most are shoot when ponds are feed for flighted duck there are stories about the killing ducklings ect but ive never seen any evidence although they are highly terrortorial

[tegater 789]

Cormorants I think I can understand due to eating fish?

 

But why kill the Coots?

 

"These birds are omnivorous, eating mainly plant material, but also small animals and eggs. They are aggressively territorial during the breeding season, but are otherwise often found in sizeable flocks on the shallow vegetated lakes they prefer.

At least some Coots have difficulty feeding a large family of fledglings on the tiny shrimp and insects that they collect. So after about three days they start attacking their own chicks when they beg for food. After a short while, these attacks concentrate on the weaker chicks, who eventually give up begging and die. The coot may eventually raise only two or three out of nine fledglings"

 

Most get shot because they mess about with anglers lines!!!

[paulus 26]

Cormorants I think I can understand due to eating fish?

 

But why kill the Coots?

 

"These birds are omnivorous, eating mainly plant material, but also small animals and eggs. They are aggressively territorial during the breeding season, but are otherwise often found in sizeable flocks on the shallow vegetated lakes they prefer.

At least some Coots have difficulty feeding a large family of fledglings on the tiny shrimp and insects that they collect. So after about three days they start attacking their own chicks when they beg for food. After a short while, these attacks concentrate on the weaker chicks, who eventually give up begging and die. The coot may eventually raise only two or three out of nine fledglings"

 

Most get shot because they mess about with anglers lines!!!

they dive and pick up carp anglers boilies

[milegajo 595]

Thanks chaps, didn't know about their meddlesome tendencies.

 

Perhaps a whizz kid for Natural England will set up a Coot education and naughty step initiative to help combat the issues and their subsequent culling.

 

Sounds like the sort of 'value' tax payers get.

[tegater 789]

Another bird we sometimes had to eat as kids in the early 70's

[paulus 26]

Another bird we sometimes had to eat as kids in the early 70's

if you keep falcons or hawks the coot and the moorhen is the best food for an instant weight gain

[tegater 789]

In fact at Weston, we used to have to shoot as many as we could when the anglers started whinging about them!

[milegajo 595]

Another bird we sometimes had to eat as kids in the early 70's

 

I wondered if they were edible. What were they like?