5 MARCH 2018 • 6:30PM
Geese are to be banned from one
of Britain's most popular public parks, because visitors keep slipping
over.
There are plans to erect a fence
around the Regent's Park Boating Lake, to stop up to 400 Canada Geese
flocking there in June to moult.
Royal Parks, which runs the park,
has been criticised by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) for
seeking to push nature into "a smaller and smaller space".
Canada Geese cannot fly during
the six-week annual moulting process, which sees them shed old feathers and
regrow new ones between June until mid-July.
During this flightless period,
the geese must be near open water so as to quickly escape any predators on land.
Regent's Park is understood to
see goose numbers rocket over this period, from around 40 year-round
to 400 in summer.
The RSPB hit out at the move and
said it could cause "distress" to end access for birds who are have
become used to returning to the same spot "for years."
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