Preliminary field trials have shown that it is possible to catch rooks, jackdaws and feral pigeons with narcotised baits.
Among the greatest enemies and destroyers of bird life are the jays, the magpies, the jackdaws and the sparrow hawks.
It is scarcely reasonable to encourage people to keep jackdaws, as they so often exhibit a dishonest streak.
If the rook is removed, it may be logical to remove the jay and the jackdaw as well.
The amendments would remove the jackdaw, the jay and the barn owl from part 1 of schedule 3.
Are we to be allowed to use jackdaw traps, for instance?
In reasonable numbers jackdaws are, on balance, beneficial to agriculture, but when very numerous they may cause an appreciable amount of damage to crops.
One of the difficulties of dealing with the case is that liberated jackdaws will return to the place of their confinement.