Hi
An interesting post on the conflicts involved in cormorant 'management'
in the US
http://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2008/07/most-hated-bird-world-sanctioned-killing-cormorants-continues-unabated-minne
While reading it I wondered about the bird 'culls', official and
unofficial, happen in Australia. I suggest the following:
(1) raptors
(2) ducks in rice farms
(3) all sorts of birds in fruit farms
(4) Common Mynas in two cities
(5) Rock Doves
(6) 'Mallee snowstorm'
Offset against these are all sorts of efforts by groups, institutions,
governments and landholders to do the opposite: provide new habitat for
birds or improve degraded habitat for birds.
I have not put in muttonbirds because I would classify that as a
'harvest' rather than a 'cull'.
Con
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