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re: Elected official charged after online post about killing, eating federally protected birds
Posted on 2/2/21 at 7:32 am to EveryoneGetsATrophy
Posted on 2/2/21 at 7:32 am to EveryoneGetsATrophy
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They were legal when I was a kid. Maybe?
Are you over 100 years old?
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Posted on 2/2/21 at 7:40 am to Wtodd
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Why are robins federally protected? Aren't they everywhere?
Maybe they're everywhere because of the protection?
Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918...multi country agreement for bird protection.
This year does seem to be a good Robin year.
Posted on 2/2/21 at 8:39 am to Tigerpaw123
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And while we are on the subject, why are they protected anyway, must see 43 thousand of the damn things every day
It is easier to protect birds by default and allow limited exceptions for hunting, than it is to protect only rare species.
They may not have always been plentiful, and the protection laws could have allowed them to recover.
The most plentiful bird ever, the passenger pigeon, was whipped out in just a few decades partially due to how easy they were to hunt and their reproduction being dependent on having high numbers of nests to overwhelm predators. There were either going to be a billion or zero. I'm guessing that robin's being easy to pop has some influence on them being protected.
Posted on 2/2/21 at 9:05 am to Wtodd
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Why are robins federally protected? Aren't they everywhere?
There are several hundred in my backyard right now. Every year about this time they migrate through here. We have a ton of pine trees, and a few oaks out back. It looks like a big blanket of birds in my yard, until one of them gets spooked and flies off and all the others follow, back up to the trees. Then they'll slowly come back down. Up until about noon every day then they're gone again.
Posted on 2/2/21 at 7:39 pm to tigerinthebueche
Remember the idiot politician who shot a bazillion black-bellied whistling "birds" and insisted it wasn't illegal (and they weren't actually ducks) after he was caught? I bet the judge had fun with him.
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