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From: christ@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Chris Thompson)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: A Home for an Owl
Message-ID: <1990Feb25.213241.24282@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 90 21:32:41 GMT
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In article <18295@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> dmark@acsu.Buffalo.EDU (David Mark) writes:
>In article <19702@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> dragon@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Sam Conway) writes:
>>In article <14233@cbnews.ATT.COM> pmd@cbnews.ATT.COM (Paul Dubuc) writes:
>>>
>>>A small grey owl has recently taken up residence in my yard.  It's a
>>>North American Screech Owl.  ... ...
>>>                        ...
>>>   ... ...     the city has marked it to be cut down.  
>>>long the city will take to get to the tree (could be several more months).
>>
>>ALL RAPTORS ARE PROTECTED BY FEDERAL LAW!  This includes all hawks and
>>owls, whether officially "endangered" or not.  
>
>  I hate to be a "wet blanket", but I believe that the federal law that
>  protects non-endangered raptors, also protects cardinals, robins,
>  chickadees, vireo-- basically ALL native birds except game-birds.
>

No, the Bald Eagle Act (which protects all raptors) is different from the 
Migratory Bird Treaty.  And it doesn't have the punch it once did, thanks to
Pres. RR.  Witness the debacle with the Spotted Owl in N. Cal., Oregon, etc.

Chris

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