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From: john@nmtsun.nmt.edu (John Shipman)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Cardinals and Idiots was birds and gators
Keywords: captive cardinals
Message-ID: <3500@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 20:55:02 GMT
References: <1989Nov15.013610.15152@xanadu.com> <3499@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <1554@intercon.com>
Reply-To: john@nmtsun.nmt.edu (John Shipman)
Organization: Zoological Data Processing
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First, I wrote:
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| Game wardens or other employees of your state game and fish
| department...will also handle any necessary rehabilitation.
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Mikki Barry replied:
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| Reporting violations can well lead to the destruction of the birds.
| Far too many state game officers would rather destroy the bird than
| bother with the difficulty of finding a rehabilitator.
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Thanks, Mikki, I was going by what I've seen with the New Mexico
Game & Fish folks; it never occurred to me that other states
might be more hard-hearted.  I encourage anyone with knowledge of
such an incident, where a bird was `rescued' only to be
destroyed, to complain to the director of the agency in question.
-- 
John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, New Mexico
john@nmtsun.nmt.edu, ucbvax!unmvax!nmtsun!john  
``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.'' [Dave Farber]