Why are they protected? They’re rats with wings.
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shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoit does not. Seagulls are protected in: UK, Ireland, all of Europe, all of North America, Mexico, Australia, Japan, Russia, and probably more but i can’t be bothered to go past the first few Google searches to find out
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
they’re covered by migratory bird protection legislations from what i read. and some of the seagull spiecies are pretty endangered. can’t tell you more than that, i just accepted that the sky thieves dickheads cannot be touched
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I feel like the default is that you aren’t allowed to kill animals. Not as in most laws outlaw killing any animal, just that there are probably a lot of laws about randomly killing animals that aren’t like tiny bugs and stuff. Like you can’t just kill a deer unless you have a hunting permit. You can’t catch fish without a fishing license. Sure, you’re probably allowed to kill animals on your property that are a nuisance or anywhere in defense, but I wouldn’t just assume I can kill a random animal.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think there’s a clear difference between an animal that’s a known nuisance and any other. If a rat and an emu both wander into my yard, the rat’s life is forfeit, but I’m not gonna fuck with the emu for multiple reasons.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Probably for the best, they defeated the Australian army in the 1932 Emu war.
Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I like how you said all of North America, and then also Mexico as if it wasn’t part of NA.
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
uhoh, my 2 from geography is showing (scale from 1-6, with 1 being fail)
Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s okay. I live in a glass house, so I shouldn’t throw stones.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
You might break something!
I got a 2 in literary metaphors.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
And that UK and Ireland aren’t a part of Europe?
Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’ve heard Brits piss and moan that the UK isn’t part of Europe before. Whether or not that has any merit I can’t say, I’m not European.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I’ve never heard any Brit say UK isn’t Europe. Are you confusing Europe, a continent one cannot secede from without moving tectonic plates or waiting billions of years, with EU, the European union, a political union?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
all of North America, Mexico
Hmmm. I mean I guess I get mentioning UK separate from the EU, but idk about Ireland, isn’t it part of the EU?
To be very clear, I’m not trying to contradict that it’s illegal to kill seagulls in a lot of places.
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
yea i’m bad at geography
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
It’s okay, I couldn’t name all 50 states on a map.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Well thanks for your exhaustive legal research.
Naich@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
birdfact.com/…/are-seagulls-protected-in-the-uk
Protected status in the UK.
HTH.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Ok, now what does jurisdiction mean?
Naich@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
dictionary.com is a good place to start.
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
they’re also protected in China and India, which together with the other ones accounts for like 70% of the world. are they protected everywhere? probably not, there are definitely some countries that have little to no wildlife protection legislations, but i’m not exactly a seagull murder law expert, nor do i want to become one, so i’ll stop at that
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What we need is someone versed in bird law.