Title: Beer-Collared Bird Freed This Weekend (CA)
Post by: Donna on 14-Dec-10, 06:59:39 AM
Two of at least five seagulls have been saved!
Those seagulls who were tortured with beer can collars continue to be found and rescued here in the Bay Area. It happened again this weekend in San Francisco. Someone befriended a seagull over the past few days near San Francisco State University giving it handouts. They reached out to WildRescue for help. The rescue was successful with the bird being caught and freed from the jagged beer can this weekend. Rebecca Dmytryk with WildRescue said her job is not over yet. She thinks there are several more birds out there with the cans around their neck.
Dmytryk says if the cans are removed, the birds will eventually die.
There is a $6,0000 reward for information leading to an arrest for whoever tortured the birds in the first place. Reports of beer collared birds go back to September. They have been spotted along the San Francisco Bay and down the coast to Half Moon Bay.
Sightings can be reported to a dedicated pager at (831) 429-2323 or emailed to rescue@wildrescue.org.
It's a federal crime to put these cans on the birds. According to WildRescue, nearly every wild bird is protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
The act, implemented in 1918, offers protection of migratory birds from being hunted, kept as pets, or sold. It was first used as a treaty between the U.S. and Britain, but later expanded to include Mexico, Japan and Russia.
How sick are people!
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Those seagulls who were tortured with beer can collars continue to be found and rescued here in the Bay Area. It happened again this weekend in San Francisco. Someone befriended a seagull over the past few days near San Francisco State University giving it handouts. They reached out to WildRescue for help. The rescue was successful with the bird being caught and freed from the jagged beer can this weekend. Rebecca Dmytryk with WildRescue said her job is not over yet. She thinks there are several more birds out there with the cans around their neck.
Dmytryk says if the cans are removed, the birds will eventually die.
There is a $6,0000 reward for information leading to an arrest for whoever tortured the birds in the first place. Reports of beer collared birds go back to September. They have been spotted along the San Francisco Bay and down the coast to Half Moon Bay.
Sightings can be reported to a dedicated pager at (831) 429-2323 or emailed to rescue@wildrescue.org.
It's a federal crime to put these cans on the birds. According to WildRescue, nearly every wild bird is protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
The act, implemented in 1918, offers protection of migratory birds from being hunted, kept as pets, or sold. It was first used as a treaty between the U.S. and Britain, but later expanded to include Mexico, Japan and Russia.
How sick are people!NBC
Title: Re: Beer-Collared Bird Freed This Weekend (CA)
Post by: Carol P. on 14-Dec-10, 07:38:12 AM
That is really horrible.
Title: Re: Beer-Collared Bird Freed This Weekend (CA)
Post by: MAK on 14-Dec-10, 09:12:03 AM
:snarl:
Title: Re: Beer-Collared Bird Freed This Weekend (CA)
Post by: Bobbie Ireland on 14-Dec-10, 09:33:38 AM
I cannot remember how many times I have written "I despair!" this year. May this be the last... until, unfortunately, I have to say it again in 2011.
Title: Re: Beer-Collared Bird Freed This Weekend (CA)
Post by: Bird Crazy on 19-Dec-10, 05:47:51 PM
OMG aluminum cans are so sharp. Poor baby. I think whoever is doing this needs one crimped on them so they can see what it feels like. grumble grumble :viking:
Title: Re: Beer-Collared Bird Freed This Weekend (CA)
Post by: MAK on 20-Dec-10, 12:05:33 AM
OMG aluminum cans are so sharp. Poor baby. I think whoever is doing this needs one crimped on them so they can see what it feels like. grumble grumble :viking:
I totally agree BC! :gum:
Title: Re: Beer-Collared Bird Freed This Weekend (CA)
Post by: rushhen06 on 20-Dec-10, 10:39:56 AM
OMG aluminum cans are so sharp. Poor baby. I think whoever is doing this needs one crimped on them so they can see what it feels like. grumble grumble :viking:
And I wouldn't put it around their necks !!!!!