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aaarrrgh - makes me mad
State's Only Breeding Goshawk, Chicks Found Dead
GRANTSVILLE, Md. -- The Maryland Department of Natural Reso
urces said the state's only known breeding female northern goshawk, a bird of prey, was shot and killed in Grantsville last week.A DNR biologist said the remains of a female northern goshawk were found last Friday in the Savage River State Forest near Westernport and McAndrews Hill roads, and evidence indicated that the animal was shot and killed, leaving three orphaned chicks in the nest to die.
3 comments:
Good grief. I'm no falconer, but raptors have always been special to me. What a crime.
Yeah - I just don't understand it. What would be the point?
Just the challenge of the target?
I shot a chickadee for that reason when I was a kid. Once was more than enough to cure me.
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