Comment on Molly the magpie is homeward bound, but carers barred from using bird for commercial gain
saltesc@lemmy.world 5 months agoThose idiots. Every Australian knows you can have wild magpies come chillout with you around your home. They’re smart and social. You don’t need to capture one. Just a few days of feeding bits of ham and talking, they’ll come visit and be on your shoulder in no time. The problem is when they get too confident and go in the house and give you sass telling them to gtfo. Or they disappear to have kis and come back with the fam
Dkarma@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sounds like they had to capture it to save its life and didn’t do it to make the thing a sideshow.
saltesc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There’s no mention of that apart from a single sentence of “…claimed they rescued”. Now it’s being returned because it’s so removed from nature it probably can’t survive so…what a “rescue”.
And especially an area like the Gold Coast, there’s a bajillion wildlife shelters and sanctuaries where people take at risk native animals they find. I’ve been given temporary permits to look after a. lorakeet and a gallah. You can either leave them at them in care, or they’ll instruct you how to care and take it off you when it’s time to release, ensuring it goes back into the wild safely.