Sparrow attack

kodiakjack said:
Perhaps you're thinking of starlings?

https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/animals/eurostarling.shtml
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Martin's lab has focused much of their efforts understanding how invasive species spread across the globe. Their main study species, also known as the English sparrow, spread rapidly across North and South America as well as Australia and now Africa and Southeast Asia since they were introduced from Western Europe more than 150 years ago.

Aggressive and often crowding out native species, the small but charismatic songbird is both adored, having been mentioned in Shakespeare's sonnets, and reviled for its voracious and destructive appetite for grain. In the United States, the house sparrow was often the target of organized eradication programs and is now implicated in the declines of other species because of its role in cycles of certain diseases.
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http://bcinvasives.ca/news-events/r...sparrows-immune-cells-sharpen-as-they-spread/
 
CV32 said:
Folks might want to take note that the Migratory Birds Convention Act covers virtually all songbirds, and there is no open season.

Generally the penalties are the same as that for poaching ducks and geese, etc.
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http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/articles.birdlaws

The MBCA generally does not protect introduced species such as the European Starling and House Sparrow. See the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act (Ontario) for birds regulated by the province.
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http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/articles.birdlaws

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This Ontario law generally applies only to those birds not covered by the federal MBCA. Birds protected by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act (FWCA) are: pelicans, cormorants, vultures, ospreys, kites, eagles, hawks, caracaras, falcons, partridges, pheasants, grouse, ptarmigan, turkey, quail, owls, kingfishers, jays, nutcrackers, magpies and ravens. The FWCA does not protect the following six birds or their nests and eggs in most of Ontario: American Crow, Brown-headed Cowbird, Common Grackle, Red-winged Blackbird, European Starling, and House Sparrow. However, the Act does protect these six birds in provincial parks and provincial crown game preserves.
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geologist said:
http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/articles.birdlaws

http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/articles.birdlaws
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As you will note from my comments that you previously quoted, I didn't say the Migratory Birds Convention Act protected all of them. Specifically the MBCA protects (under Article I, section 2):

Migratory Insectivorous Birds: Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, cuckoos, flickers, flycatchers, grosbeaks, humming birds, kinglets, martins, meadowlarks, nighthawks or bull bats, nuthatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, waxwings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers, and wrens, and all other perching birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects.
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Meanwhile, while provincial/territorial laws (such as those in Ontario) are useful, the MBCA applies across Canada.
 
elimsprint said:
Putting my handle on your wifes picture doesn't bother me and yes I do tend to hate malicious robin murdering morons.
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There's a word for someone who would destroy a protected species in contravention of the law: Poacher. Actually, that's probably one of the milder descriptors.
 
elimsprint said:
Putting my handle on your wifes picture doesn't bother me and yes I do tend to hate malicious robin murdering morons.
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As kids my brothers and me would shoot Robins all day long, they never seem to run out, always more to shoot. Until mom caught us, the beating was epic, we still talk and laugh about it, and mom is still mad about it. I still have no love for them
 
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