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SPCA vows to trace Springs bird killer
New Zealand Herald – Mar 21, 2007
Forty ducks geese swans pigeons and pukeko died after eating grain laced with alphachloralose on Monday. A further 60 were treated by the SPCA’s BirdWing recovery centres. The fast-acting poison was scattered on grass around Western Springs but so far police have few leads as to who dispersed it. A discarded poison box found in a rubbish bin may be submitted for forensic testing but it is difficult to know how many people have handled it besides the culprit. SPCA inspectorate manager David Lloyd-Barker said that despite the lack of leads the society was confident it would find the culprit.
Get out there: shotgun shooting
ISU Bengal nline – Mar 21, 2007
People shoot clay pigeons for many reasons. lympic competition shooters hunters as well as conservationists can agree that shooting clay pigeons is a fun and challenging sport. Many people use clay pigeon shooting as a way to hone in their shotgun shooting skills and practice up for Idaho’s magnificent bird seasons. thers who may not hunt use clay pigeons to get them outdoors and to do something new and exciting that offers an element of competition. I am a semi-retired bird hunter meaning that I liked hunting birds as I was growing up in Idaho farm country but rarely take shots at live birds anymore as I enjoy them for their beauty as much as I enjoy them for table fare. However I do love guns and shooting something that I know I have in common with many Idaho State University students. For me clay pigeons are a way for me to enjoy my guns while being outdoors and provide a little friendly competition between my friends and myself.
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Providence Journal – Mar 21, 2007
She says this with a combination of smile and grimace; nature can be gruesome up close. The first peregrine to return to its nesting area in the financial district arrived more than two weeks ago. It carved up the sky as it reestablished its territory over the concrete towers and wreaked terror in the local population of starlings robins and pigeons. If all goes well a mate will follow and they will make use of the man-made nesting box placed out on the 30th floor ledge of the adjacent Bank of America Tower. Related links Your Turn:… resident or a snowbird who returns in the spring? There oblivious to the thousands of people below these birds — the size of large crows and the fastest living creatures on earth diving at speeds of more than 200 mph — will go about their wild lives of raising a family and plucking bird du jour dinners from the sky. The peregrines which were taken off the federal endangered list just a few years ago have hatched chicks from the local nesting box every spring but one since 2000. Before then it had been half a century since a peregrine was born in Rhode Island. Joe Zbyrowski formerly of Coventry and who has studied raptors for more than 30 years installed the nesting box back in 1996 during a national campaign to bring the birds back after use of chemical insecticides had wiped out their numbers. Zbyrowski who still monitors the birds and bands the chicks each year says two other pairs of peregrines are nesting in Rhode Island this spring.
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