[TN-Bird] Re: State Birds
- From: Durwood Edwards <durwoode@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 21:30:52 -0500
Here, here!
Durwood
On May 22, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Wallace Coffey wrote:
> I agree with everyone that we should change the Tennessee state bird. The
> mockingbird was not a good representative even if we had let all the inmates
> at state prisons vote. It was probably a very fashionable and trendy thing
> for TOS to do way back in 1933.
>
> <vulture image.jpg>The most logical bird we could work together to have the
> legislature approve would be a VULTURE. Why would we need to make it a
> Turkey Vulture or Black Vulture ? Even simply the name BUZZARD would do just
> as well but I don't want a firestorm on here about that being a name used for
> large soaring hawks in Europe, bla, bla, bla !
>
>
> VULTURES do such a good service in cleaning up farms of dead animals and the
> remains hunters leave behind when they field dress a trophy deer. They even
> eat whole kernel corn niblets and worms left along the banks of fishing
> areas by fishermen.
>
> Why not the VULTURE ?
>
> Wallace Coffey
> Bristol, TN
Other related posts:
