G'day Bob,
The secret to collecting useful dead specimens is to ring your local museum
and ask if they want it because from the time they say yes you are covered.
There is clearly a discretionary aspect to this law, so unless you have a
freezer full of dead birds and no intension of ever handing them into a
museum I suspect you are safe. Rory O'Brien will reply to this post if I am
speaking a load of rubbish here. The fact is we need museum collections to
grow and this is happening very slowly these days without appropriate museum
budgets which allow for targeted field collection. I would never hesitate to
pick up a valuable dead bird and hand it on to enhance our public
collections, in fact I think it is important that people do so. I don't know
of anyone with honorable intent who has been nabbed for picking up a dead
bird.
Cheers Jeff.
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of bob gosford
Sent: Sunday, 27 June 2010 6:17 PM
To: Birding-Aus (Forum)
Subject: Got a spare dead bird - and money to pay the fine?
Dear all,
My take on the recent discussion about what to do with a dead bird is here:
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/2010/06/27/roadkill-of-the-week-what-can
-you-do-with-a-dead-bird/
I've also looked at the law in the NT on the taking and possession of
roadkill birds - an the huge fines you can get caught with...
--
Bob Gosford
Crikey.com
The Northern Myth blog
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/
Alice Springs, NT
Australia
Ph: (+61) 0447024968
Twitter: @bgosford
"The NT Government does not respond to random electronic gossip sites."
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