[TN-Bird] Eating Birds

From: Jerry Ingles <jerryingles@xxxxxxxxx>
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:17:53 -0800 (PST)
This Summer's Living Bird (a magazine of Cornell Lab of Ornith.) has an article 
about IL Prairie Chickens and how they were once marketed and enjoyed by, 
especially, Mark Twain.

While it is almost certain that it was habitat loss and degradation rather than 
hunting that resulted in the present circumstance of a mere remnant population, 
we are reminded that there really are circumstances where
rules and regulations need to respond to situational ethics.

We are reminded, of course, that Audubon himself, in very different times, shot 
and ate songbirds, although he did not shoot them solely with the purpose of 
eating them.

Weighing the risk of loss of Whoopers against the benefits (to some, of course) 
of Sandhills is simply an issue that we must, as a society, confront.

It seems to me wholly appropriate that TOS be particularly supportive of wild 
bird preservation while, as individuals, we realize that there are other 
legitimate points of view.

Jerry Ingles
Worden IL (Madison County)

It has been my very great fortune to find an incredibly wonderful bird.
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