I wonder what sort of academic qualifications a person needs to work for the RSPB - or, especially, to be a 'spokesman'. Obviously an O level in logic is not requisite. A comment on the BBC website states (in connection with seabirds wintering at Branscombe, and their recent contact with oil spilled from a ship) : 'While these species were "not particularly rare", their deaths would "further threaten their existence",'

Did I MISS something - does not 'death' equate to the ulitimate threat to the existence of these particular individuals? Well, i guess he has to say SOMETHING - the RSPB gets loads of money from guilt-stricken former cat-lovers in the shape of legacies - and they have to HIRE someone to speak for them. He needn't make sense all or even SOME of the time.