[TN-Bird] You don't harvest animals

Someone used this euphemism in the discussion of what various birds taste like. 
TWRA and other hunter groups are trying to convince us that we "harvest" game. 
I think that's so mom will let dad take her 10-year-old out with a high-powered 
rifle to kill a deer, when he's really at the age when he should be hunting 
rabbits with a .22. ( or bank fishing, or birding with binoculars). 

As a style matter on the outdoors page of the Johnson City Press, any mention 
of "harvest" that doesn't apply to grain is changed to "kill". When the news 
department used to write the obituaries, people "died", they did not pass away 
or go to sleep with Jesus like they do now that obits are paid ads. 

Ornithologists who have collected specimens usually end up eating the remains 
after skinning what they have taken with their fowling piece. 

Nothing quite like a bowl of Harpy Eagle stew to go with your study skin, or so 
I've been told. With video and other technology I wonder if field 
ornithologists still collect specimens? 

Arturo Kirkconnell , author of the Cuban Field Guide, took me into the specimen 
room at Museo Nacional de Historia Natural in Havana to show me his Gundlach's 
Hawk specimen, since we didn't find a live one at Playa Larga . Appropriately 
they are all kept in cigar boxes in Havana. But the GH skin was gone, stolen. 
The Museo cannot afford security when they can only afford to pay their curator 
$27 a month. 

Sorry to wander. Part of the aging process. 



James Brooks 


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