Owl No Brexit

£2.40

A satirical ‘Owl’ Anti-Brexit Greeting Card to support the No Brexit, anti-Brexit movement, featuring a wise owl asking the question ‘You want to leave the EU?, Why??’

– Blank inside for your own message
– Printed in the UK on premium card stock
– Supplied with a white envelope

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SKU: B0013 Category:

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Owl No Brexit Greeting Card to support the anti-Brexit movement, featuring a wise owl asking the question ‘You want to leave the EU?, Why?’

I mean, really – Why?? Why pull up the drawbridge on all that Europe has to offer? Why retreat into the island state across the water from all that cultural mix, all those interesting people? It beats me.

This Sceptered Isle and Owl No Brexit Greeting Card

The bard spoke of ‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself. This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.’

In his day he could look out on the countryside and see owls and other creatures. He could look and believe and know that they were as fixed as the stars. Today we face a terrible decline in bird populations. Specifically, pulling out of the European Union also risks doing away with the environmental protections that the EU has put in place. And then would our poor wise owl be?

Owls In The UK

Let’s start with the Little owl, which is not a native. It was introduced into England in the 1870s and now there are around 6,000 pairs in the UK.

The Tawny owl looks like the bark of a tree. All the better to spy on its prey. There are about 50,000 breeding pairs in the UK. Despite what seems a healthy population, their numbers are falling. That is, they are now on the amber watchlist of endangered animals.

Owl No Brexit Greeting Card

The Barn owl that features in this anti-Brexit card only has a UK population of about 4,000 breeding pairs. That puts it slightly ahead of the Long-eared owl with its 3,500 breeding pairs and far below the numbers of short-eared owls that hunt over the estuaries and the coast of this sceptered isle.

Bubo bubo: The European Eagle Owl

And that brings us to Bubo bubo the European eagle owl that can have a wingspan of nearly two metres and of which there are probably less than 30 in the UK.

SKU: B0013

A satirical 'Owl' Anti-Brexit Greeting Card to support the No Brexit, anti-Brexit movement, featuring a wise owl asking the question 'You want to leave the EU?, Why?'
Owl No Brexit
£2.40