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From: john@nmt.edu (John Shipman)
Newsgroups: rec.birds,sci.bio
Subject: Re: HEAD JERKING OF WALKING BIRD
Summary: One more chorus of the Migratory Bird Treaty Rag
Message-ID: <1990Jul28.174626.20999@nmt.edu>
Date: 28 Jul 90 17:46:26 GMT
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Organization: Zoological Data Processing
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Jack Schmidling (arf@gagme) writes:
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| The following is typical of the responses I got to the 
| question I posed....
| 
| >You realize, of course, that this is a violation of Federal law.
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The federal Migratory Bird Treaty prohibits any individuals
from possessing wild native birds without a permit.
Introduced birds such as Rock Doves (park pigeons), European
Starling, Budgerigar, etc., are not included in this law.
(By the way, starlings make terrific cagebirds.)

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| I fully accept the criminal nature of the act which I 
| implicated myself in, but having watched a kestral snatch 
| the first two fledglings off the nest in my bathoom window,  
| I was in no mood to concern myself with the letter of the 
| law.
+--

Typical prejudice against birds of prey---the kestrel was
probably feeding young!  Raptors have to eat too.  No
smiley here---I'm not shy about being a predator fan;
a bumper sticker on my car reads, ``Save the Great White
Shark.''
-- 
John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, NM/john@jupiter.nmt.edu
``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.''  --Dave Farber