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["katya" <katya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have I reached Audubon?  This is my maiden voyage to the listserve. 

Regarding the Black Vulture.  Euthanasia literally translates good death--from 
Greek, eu:good; thanatos:death.  Being lured, poisoned and shot sounds like a 
kind of death I would like to avoid.  I also maintain that animals in wild do 
not loaf, word which clearly gained popularity in the mid 20th century with 
successful introduction of the penny loafer into our culture.  Never have I 
seen an animal sporting such footware and would love for a cartoonist to have 
at this gross anthropomophism of vultures.  It seems to me that this kind of 
killing, which is anything but a good death, is so cruel and vidictive that 
perhaps people have again ascribed human motivation to these birds as if they 
were being malicious and intentionally destructive.  I also find it difficult 
to believe that the dead animals, some of them surely blasted to bits, are 
going to be studied afterwards.

I enjoyed the walk yesterday at Henricus Park and was delighted that we finally 
met up.  Glad the weather wasn't worse for the Christmas Bird Count.
 

 
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