Fed up with wanton killing of songbirds

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I belong to several archery/bowhunting forums and lately there have been a couple threads about killing songbirds with bow and arrow. I suspect these people are young and just getting involved with traditional archery and trying to kill SOMETHING to make them feel like they belong.

One guy bragged and took pictures of nailing a woodpecker to a tree with a flu-flu arrow. Another guy said something black appeared in front the target so he shot and hit it. It turned out to be a male ruby throated hummingbird. These kind of threads sicken me for both wanton killing and killing songbirds. What is more infuriating is the more immature members of the forum egg them on and make jokes about it.

I try to point out it is immature, illegal and just plain disgusting but I get shouted down by the wannabee bowhunters. I'd like to find a Federal source to report the next one I read about and see their butts burned.
 
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I would agree. I have no idea why anyone would want to kill any kind of bird that you can't eat.
 
We have somebody in our community who was recently taken to task for putting poison out for the birds. It wasn't like they were targeting pigeons, it is that ALL birds are unwelcome in their yard. Really? :confused::confused::confused:

I had never experienced this attitude before until I heard it from my ma-in-law. She would complain when there were grackles in her yard. When I asked her why, what was the problem, she did not provide a coherent answer. I think it's a control thing again.
 
One little kid left to his own with a bb gun can wipe out a whole neighborhood. I figure these bird shooters are about as stupid.

I hope they post their great adventures on facebook.
 
When I was a kid

I took a long shot at a bird that I didn't expect at all to hit and down it went. I felt like total hell and never came close to doing anything like that again. I've hunted twice since then but never killed anything then decided to quit altogether.


When I was young I often had packs of blue jays fighting outside my window and I felt justified to kill them but never did. I don't think you can call a blue jay a 'songbird' but very loud pests. They are beautiful to look at though.:)
 
Woodpeckers are a federally protected bird under the North American Migratory Bird Act.

Just an FYI...........

All migratory birds are protected by federal law!!
 
rwsmith said:
When I was young I often had packs of blue jays fighting outside my window and I felt justified to kill them but never did. I don't think you can call a blue jay a 'songbird' but very loud pests. They are beautiful to look at though.:)
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I call them tree gulls. They have that raucous, aggressive demeanor. But they're handsome rascals and don't deserve killing.

I happily subscribe to the belief held by a great many paleontologists that dinosaurs became birds.
 
In Michigan, the DNR allows the taking of English sparrows and Starlings, both of which are non-native species. Both of these will harass and kill the Eastern Bluebird, which is adored by my wife. Did you know a Crow can pick up a Starling carcass and fly off with it? Recycling, the natural way... We love our native Michigan birds, and Bluebirds have been safely nesting in our back yard for the last four years.
 
Cpl Ken said:
In Michigan, the DNR allows the taking of English sparrows and Starlings, both of which are non-native species. Both of these will harass and kill the Eastern Bluebird, which is adored by my wife. Did you know a Crow can pick up a Starling carcass and fly off with it? Recycling, the natural way... We love our native Michigan birds, and Bluebirds have been safely nesting in our back yard for the last four years.
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Same in Tennessee............Starlings seem to suddenly get sick and die from lead poisoning in my backyard.

Don
 
We have cherry trees.
THEEE day that the cherries mature a swarm of Gold Finches show up and eat ALL of the cherries!
Maybe 25 years ago my son, the kid next door, and myself went out with bb guns and tried to run the birds off. We each shot a few but the others didn't care one bit - they just kept eating cherries....
I told the kids to quit.
The boy from next door kept shooting.
I told him to stop shooting because it wasn't making any difference.
He said, "That's OK - I just like to kill things." :eek:

He's spent most of his life from the time he was a young teen till lately in prison for one thing or another. He'd get out and do something else and be back in again.

Surprised?
 
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