The "Queen's Bird"

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Ok, who out there has ever been sitting there when all of a sudden a seagul flies by and you just wish, JUST ONCE, you could shoot it?!?!? Last weekend my buddy and I were crow hunting and nothing was coming, well except for seaguls. Like and I'm serious, nothing but seaguls over head WELL in shotgun range. And you know you cant shoot them...BUT WHY THE HELL NOT?!? Was the Queen FLATTERED by this "gift"...i would have felt f**king ripped off!!!
Anyone know of anyway this law can be reversed. Like seriously, there is an endless supply of them out there and the less "rodent" type birds we have around (crows, pigeons, SEAGULS, etc)...the better we stand against bird flu type viruses.
Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
 
Seagulls help clean up the environment. Parking lots, fast food dumpsters, you name it, they eat it.

Crows, well, I call them Satan's ####hawks.
 
Ok, who out there has ever been sitting there when all of a sudden a seagul flies by and you just wish, JUST ONCE, you could shoot it?!?!? Last weekend my buddy and I were crow hunting and nothing was coming, well except for seaguls. Like and I'm serious, nothing but seaguls over head WELL in shotgun range. And you know you cant shoot them...BUT WHY THE HELL NOT?!? Was the Queen FLATTERED by this "gift"...i would have felt f**king ripped off!!!
Anyone know of anyway this law can be reversed. Like seriously, there is an endless supply of them out there and the less "rodent" type birds we have around (crows, pigeons, SEAGULS, etc)...the better we stand against bird flu type viruses.
Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
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...............My thought is you sound trigger happy.:rolleyes:
 
Grouse Man said:
Seagulls help clean up the environment. Parking lots, fast food dumpsters, you name it, they eat it. .
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Anything they eat would naturallu degrade anyways.

If they opened a season on them i would be the first one in a blind watching over my McDonalds garbage bait pile.
 
Anyone who has seen ####hawks gobble up baby geese is no fan of the Queen's bird! Anyone who is involved with airport wildlife issues recognizes the danger these things present to air travel. Gulls needs to have their numbers checked, and regulations need to be updated to reflect this reality. That gulls are scavengers does not change the fact.
 
i share your opinions and i would like to shoot some but you also have to look at what happened to the carrier pigeons
 
grouseman said:
huh? you say that almost as if thats a bad thing:rolleyes:

one of my favorite re-occuring dreams involves me with a 12 gauge, an unlimited supply of ammo, and a land fill yeehaw:dancingbanana: :shotgun:
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they were paying people to do that at my landfill :S
 
Used to shoot them when they followed the tractor eating earth worms ploughed up. Old cooey 12 ga. one or two shots usually took care of it. They flew away!!! Was fun too!! JITC
 
Seagulls _used_ to be in danger, but thanks to the explosion in open-pit landfills up and down the eastern seaboard of the US (yay Freshkill!) their numbers have increased every year.

I think it's time to at least de-protect the little ####hawks, and let provinces decide if and how many we're allowed to shoot.
 
Win94 said:
...............My thought is you sound trigger happy.:rolleyes:
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My thought is, if I was trigger happy I would have shot them...they were in shotgun range. I was just more or less dissappointed cause I only really get to get out of the house about once a week cause I'm super busy through-out the week with work and on the weekends I like to spend most of my time with my fiancee since we're having a baby soon and we wont get much "us" time after that lol! no but I was just sitting and couldnt help but wondering why we can't shoot them...DAMN THOSE HUNTER ETHICS!!!

and as for the "Cleaning up carcus's" crap...i've heard the same argument from people who dont like it when I hunt crows...which is when I'd like to say "CIRCLE OF LIFE BEE-OTCH..."
 
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I'm not speaking frpm personal experiance or anything. But a little bird once told me, after a saturday gophershooting, leaving hundreds of carcasses in the field. The next day, nothing was left of the corpses, except for a few gulls that had a heartattack and died the day before. Nothing would touch those. So they open a season. you gonna eat them? :p
 
They're protected under the Migratory Birds Convention Act signed in 1917 between Canada and the U.S. It was designed to stop market hunting and put in sensible seasons on things like ducks and geese, and to protect other species from willful destruction and disappearence like the passenger pigeon and great Auk.. It is the basis for all federal bird protection and is enforced by the RCMP.
 
Sure there's lots of certain kinds of gulls -- probably too many. But there's lots of other kinds of gulls and terns, some of which are endangered, that look very similar, at least on the wing. If they open up the season on "seagulls", trigger happy guys would start blasting every white bird in the air. And that would be pretty bad for a bunch of terns and gulls that aren't doing so well.
 
Gulls eat millions of grasshoppers, cut worms and such. They are the farmers friends, and natures way of keeping things in check. You can cut their numbers down and use more pesticide if you like. I prefer the birds over chemicals any day.
 
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