All,
An account of a recent, unfortunate and regrettably too-common incident.
"People don’t kill birds, cars kill birds.
Well, that might be my justification if I was to defend myself if charged
with the bird-slaughter (there was no intent, so it couldn’t be murder) of
a young Wedge-tailed Eagle last week.
But that would be a lie. People kill birds.
With their cars and by their blind rushes of speed, thoughtlessness and
unwillingness to slow down to allow the birds – engorged with carrion flesh
– to raise from the carcasses that litter our highways.
I drive around the Top End of the NT a lot and, as regular readers of The
Northern Myth would know, I have written extensively about roadkills that I
have encountered <http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/?s=roadkill> in my
travels around the NT and the rest of Australia."
More here:
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/2013/06/23/the-killer-inside-roadkill-of-the-week-wedge-tailed-eagle/
--
Bob Gosford
Crikey.com
The Northern Myth blog
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/
Alice Springs, NT
Australia
Ph: (+61) 0447024968
Twitter: @bgosford
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