Well done, Mike on behalf of all of us for putting this all together in such a cogently reasoned and coherent form.
We must get across one very simple point in particular; that - based on systematic record-keeping over many years - any group of suddenly dead or moribund Scaly-breasted Munias in an urban area had almost certainly been caught up in the bird trade and then subject to wilful and illegal release.
If we get that point across, we can get the bird trade closed down and the release practice stopped, not have Mai Po placed under quarantine restrictions again.
I hope we'll be able to get it all out through the local Press, including the farce of banning the old people's bird-watching walks while allowing the parks to stay open.
Mike Turnbull.
