Has anyone else heard of this group?  I hadn't until I started to read my copy of Birdwatching that arrived this morning.  It seems they have funded an £88,000 cull on carrion crows and magpies blaming them as the reason why song bird numbers have fallen so rapidly.  Speaking about the RSPB's response to the cull their spokesman claims that, "...They don't want to alienate people who might think twice about leaving money to an organisation that culls certain species of birds."  He also claimed that RSPB was turning a blind eye to the threat from predator species.

Well, it seems to me that the spokesman is turning a blind eye to the cull of rudy duck a few years ago which was supported by RSPB.  As for legacy funding, he might look at the result of their cull might have on their finacnes in future.