Nick Herman
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re:Question about owls. - 2006/02/06 14:11
There's no reason for a rehabber to mutilate a bird so they could keep it, they simply need fill out the form to use it for educational purposes & they can keep it.
Ok, so the laws are they're to protect the native wild birds. Which I am all for. But at the same time, it's too broad by disallowing the use of exotics, and captive bred birds. You didn't menmtion why they were presumably shooting the hawks and eagles, I'm asuming it's just for a trophy?
In Oregon there was a big to do over a sheep rancher that had shot a red tialed hawk (which are overly abundant in our state) because in a period of just over a week it had suspiciously killed 7 lambs the man was running in a pasture.
With a species such as the pygmy owls of Arizona, who's numbers are in the double digits and have been as low as 9 living in the entire state. Wouldn't the ability to have captive breeding programs be a good formerly thing. It would improve their numbers and maybe in a few generations they could be stealthily introduced into the wild to help bolster their numbers.
If I understand you correctly, you're still talking about wild animals. I'm not. I'm talkking about birds no different then the parrot or cockatoo you'd get from a breeder, or even the local pet store. Now don't get me wrong selling an owls in a pet store should very much be prohibited, they're too much of a handful and far too appealing to be allowed purchase there.
I suppose this is secretly going no where, but discussion is always a good thing.
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