FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Re: KOS Bird Hunting Position

["Preston Forsythe" <pns_for@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark and other readers of BIRDKY:

This is a Conservation issue!  Is that an unacceptable topic?

All I asked was if anyone had seen a purple gallinule this year? I will further 
expand that question to over the past 3 years? Five years?

Sounds like they have possibly all been killed off in KY, or they do not 
commonly fly this far north. Something is fishy with that hunting season.

I may be wrong and if so please step forward and speak up with counts and 
locations. That is a simple matter.  

If the counts justify a hunting season so be it, if not, I suggest the Fish and 
Wildlife people who make those decisions should reconsider. The main thing I 
see on BirdKy is counts and locations, but maybe I missed some of the uncommon 
species counts, for example, the purple gallinule numbers.

For the life of me I cannot understand why anyone would kill a Wood Duck, even 
if there were a thousand floating out in the water like targets.

Within the Guidelines and Birdingly,

Preston Forsythe

Browder, KY
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bennett, Mark 
  To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 1:35 PM
  Subject: [birdky] KOS Bird Hunting Position


  To Whom it May Concern:

  The Kentucky Ornithological Society has no position on hunting, hunting 
birds, or hunting Purple Gallinule and similarly uncommon species.  The topic 
was discussed briefly at the spring board meeting in response to posts on this 
forum and a decision was made to retain the no position stance.  KOS membership 
includes avid hunters, those opposed to all hunting, those who question the 
hunting of certain species, and all shapes and sizes of positions on this issue 
not herein described.  KOS as an organization recognizes the diversity of its 
membership and does not have a position on this issue.

  KOS is inherently apolitical.  

  BIRDKY is un-moderated. 

  At times posts on BIRDKY are a "violation" of the "rules".   Some posts may 
seem to be a "violation" to some subscribers and not to others.  Dr. Ritchison 
(Dr. Gary Ritchison of Eastern Kentucky University) and I have disagreed as to 
the appropriateness of some posts in the past.  Occasionally, Dr. Ritchison 
provides follow-up regarding the appropriateness of a post to the list 
subscribers or to the poster.  

  I ask all subscribers to read and to follow the guidelines for posting to 
BIRDKY at this address:  http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos/birdkyguide.htm

  As president of KOS, the sponsoring organization, I ask specifically that 
"unacceptable" topics contained therein and pasted below be avoided: 
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  Wild birds, birders, and birding are the accepted topics. Unacceptable topics 
are:
      a.. Chain letters 
      b.. Pet/caged/domestic birds 
      c.. The ethics and/or morality of hunting or falconry 
      d.. Feral cats 

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  Some posts are in a "gray" area in terms of their appropriateness and 
subscribers may disagree.  The Web-posted guidelines for this case are copied 
below for quick reference: 
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please contact Gary Ritchison (gary.ritchison@xxxxxxx).


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  Thanks for all subscribers for helping to make BIRDKY a successful 
un-moderated list-serve.

  Mark Bennett, President
  Kentucky Ornithological Society
  113 Iroquois Circle
  Russellville, KY  42276

  benn5609@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or
  Mark.Bennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 


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