I fully concur with Peter's last paragraph. USF&WS routinely approves the killing of tens of thousands of cormorants, gulls, geese, vultures, and God knows what else. One would hope they would not make a federal case out of a good faith effort to transport a carcass for research or educational purposes.
Andy Mason At 11:55 AM 11/16/2009, you wrote: >Greetings. Agree on plummage. And measurements per Pyle, vol 2, p >218, would seal the deal. The tarsus of an Arctic is much shorter >than a Common's; the wing, tail, exposed culmen and bill depth of a >Common are each greater and the area of overlap with the Arctic is >quite small. > >Which brings up legalities. The USFWS has a long, recent history of >neither enforcing, investigating nor referring for prosecution >clear, uncontestable, violations of "take" under the MBTA. If, >although lacking a salvage permit, you are motivated to pick up a >dead migratory bird with the intention to deliver the corpse to an >educational institution---do it. > >Best, Peter > >Peter Doherty ><mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >214-B 84th Street >Virginia Beach, VA 23451 >757-470-0774 (cell) >757-321-0255 (local) > > > Andrew Mason 1039 Peck St. Jefferson, NY 12093 (607) 652-2162 [email protected] -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
