Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:48:12 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sherry Peruzzi Subject: The rest of the Mockingbird chick story MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For those who have been following the continuing saga of the mockingbird chicks who were euthanized because their parents tried to protect them, the end of the story is a happy one. Nothing will bring the 871 birds that were killed back to life, of course, but today's Washington Post reports: "The Washington Humane Society, charged with protecting animals from cruel humans, received a little obedience training from a judge yesterday for the crime of euthanizing three mockingbird hatchlings -- a violation of federal bird protection law.... [T]he private, nonprofit organization was sentenced to one year of unsupervised probation during which all society employees must undergo training by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on migratory bird laws.... Since the investigation began, the society has obtained a permit to receive wild birds and transfer them to licensed rescue groups, but under no circumstances is the society permitted to euthanize birds." The full story is at this page: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29831-2001Apr17.html Sherry Peruzzi Howard County bookworms@home.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================