From: "Katie McSheffrey Gunther" <>
To: <>
Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Thanks Terry Pacey!!
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:09:37 +1100
I may be a minority of one on this mailing list. I do object to the
painting of all hunters as irresponsible and intent on the destruction of
native animals. A surprising number of us are educated, ethical, and
conservationists!
Yep! Basic ecological principle is survival of the fittest and its people
like Katie that help keep the population of them birds and animals (vermin)
under control. It is these heroes that maintain natures balance, culling
and culling to take pressure off the environment and weed out the weak. If
it was not for the hunters we would be overrun by vermin and genetically
inferior stock.
The hunters will demonstrate how its just a simple matter of a clean head or
chest shot and they are satisfied. And how as concerned conversationists,
they lobby and lobby to save important areas of natural lands that otherwise
would have been developed. They will tell us that in africa, by placing
such a high price on an animal trophy, they have saved species by creating
an economic incentive on habitat preservation. They have achieved all of
this because of their ability to lobby strongly. They have erected
thousands of nesting boxes which has helped save the european starling.
Man is a natural hunter they will say. Thank you Katie for caring about the
welfare of our birds like you do!
I am happy to debate the ethicality of hunting, but do we really want to do
it on this previously enjoyable listserv? After reading the bill cover to
cover (which is like chewing glass, by the way)
I suppose the pain of eating glass would be mild compared to the suffering
of wounded Stilts and other birds injured by having their mandibles and
their legs blown off by off target duck hunters. Such things would make
great subjects for Katies scientific illustration.
Yep! Hunters are the real heroes of the environment. It is difficult for
them to describe their excitement when all their skill culminates in the
shooting down of a Little Quail flushing from the stubble. Just knowing
that one has contributed to the protection of our environment, by reducing
quail grazing pressure must be "so satisfying".
And Hunters all strenuously deny that the blood and the thrill of the kill
is any substitute for their sexual inability.
Happy birding
Marilyn
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