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Post by 777 on Feb 16, 2021 7:18:13 GMT -8
It has been extremely cold lately in Crockett for the past two days. As I am typing this, it is 8 degrees Fahrenheit outside. I found seven dead birds around my house, the cold was too much for them to handle. I'm not sure what to do with them, but I don't want to throw them away. I can't keep them as specimens because that's illegal to do here for some reason. Do you have any suggestions?
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Post by Paul K on Feb 16, 2021 8:02:23 GMT -8
It has been extremely cold lately in Crockett for the past two days. As I am typing this, it is 8 degrees Fahrenheit outside. I found seven dead birds around my house, the cold was too much for them to handle. I'm not sure what to do with them, but I don't want to throw them away. I can't keep them as specimens because that's illegal to do here for some reason. Do you have any suggestions? Just leave them for food for other animals to go thru winter time. It’s called natural selection. Weak individual has to die so the strongest genus can be passed ( not always applies to human ). |
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Post by eurytides on Feb 16, 2021 8:16:26 GMT -8
Agree. You don’t “have to” do anything. Mother nature does just fine without human intervention.
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Post by 777 on Feb 16, 2021 8:33:49 GMT -8
You are right. I'll take them to the forest. I thought it would be a shame to leave them to rot, but I forgot that they can help other animals get much needed food. Thank you!
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Post by kevinkk on Feb 16, 2021 9:45:18 GMT -8
Those are all good ideas, probably what I'd do, now that my neighbors we were arguing with moved...
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Post by leptraps on Feb 16, 2021 9:46:27 GMT -8
I am always ask where I dump/despose of all the excess or unwanted specimens/insects in my traps.
I have Bait Traps out all winter. Whenever I empty my traps I have a spot near by where I dump out the old bait. I can leave hundreds of unwanted specimens from a light trap at a dump site. When I return the next time to check my trap, absolutely every single specimen or insect will be gone.
While living in Kentucky I had a spot in the forest where I dumped the unwanted specimens from my Light Traps. When I return the next day, the unwanted insects are gone. Every single one.
When I checked my Bait Traps in the forest, I would dump the unwanted specimens on a piece pld lumber ten inches by sixteen inches. When I returned, even just an hour later, everything I left was gone.
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Post by joachim on Feb 16, 2021 18:51:23 GMT -8
kentucky fried chickens
Sorry for making bad jokes.
e also found here dead birds because of the cold wheather (today it is from -22 two days ago to 5 Celsius ). We used to feed tham always.
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Post by kevinkk on Feb 16, 2021 20:15:58 GMT -8
bad jokes? you must have missed my comment about hedgehogs vs beavers in the "early spring" topic.
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Post by gaspipe on Feb 17, 2021 12:11:36 GMT -8
Illegal to keep? Are the dead bird police surveilling your home ?
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Post by Chris Grinter on Feb 17, 2021 15:08:50 GMT -8
You should contact a local or regional natural history museum. They likely have salvage permits to take animals like this, and if they want the specimens they will instruct you on what to do. Usually that's bagging them in a ziplock with the location, time, date, etc. and storing in your freezer until you can drop them off.
Or you could capture some data from the poor animals by taking photographs and uploading to iNaturalist, and then leaving for nature to take over. It would be interesting to document the impact it's having on bird (and other) populations!
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Post by exoticimports on Feb 17, 2021 16:54:41 GMT -8
You can ask for a permit to keep a dead bird. If they say no, throw it outside.
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Post by Paul K on Feb 17, 2021 17:17:54 GMT -8
I once found dead hummingbird. It flew to the large window and broke its neck. When I tried to open it to remove organs in order to dry and fill up with cotton I ruined it.
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Post by 777 on Feb 17, 2021 18:04:36 GMT -8
I'll definitely write down information about the birds. I don't know why they are protected like that, they are just a bunch of super common sparrows and house wrens.
I put them in the nearby forest a while ago, they are long gone now. I missed the opportunity of setting up a trail camera near them.
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Post by kevinkk on Feb 17, 2021 19:54:15 GMT -8
Illegal to keep? Are the dead bird police surveilling your home ? I wouldn't joke about that, what's goofy today.. I always feel bad for the birds that smack into our windows, sometimes, it's a clean kill, other times, just a thud and feathers. A few times I've had a tweety bird peck at the window, like some Hitchockian avian, I still feed them, though, what you don't want to do is leave anything like a fast food bag lying in sight of the crows, one time at lunch, I looked away and one had my cheeseburger. Hummingbird in the house! I had an uncle that teased my little sister at the time, they always go for the eyes. |
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Post by nomihoudai on Feb 17, 2021 20:04:39 GMT -8
Illegal to keep? Are the dead bird police surveilling your home ? I always feel bad for the birds that smack into our windows That reminds me of that one time when I asked my boss urgently for a plastic bag. A falcon (Falco tinnunculus) had hit the window of our building and I wanted to keep it. I put it into my freezer next to the ice cream and the day after I brought it to the local museum. They stuffed it and it is on display there now. |
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Post by gaspipe on Feb 18, 2021 4:18:23 GMT -8
Illegal to keep? Are the dead bird police surveilling your home ? I wouldn't joke about that, what's goofy today.. I always feel bad for the birds that smack into our windows, sometimes, it's a clean kill, other times, just a thud and feathers. A few times I've had a tweety bird peck at the window, like some Hitchockian avian, I still feed them, though, what you don't want to do is leave anything like a fast food bag lying in sight of the crows, one time at lunch, I looked away and one had my cheeseburger. Hummingbird in the house! I had an uncle that teased my little sister at the time, they always go for the eyes. Any crows around my house are subject to lead poisoning via my pellet gun . They peck at my roof shingles . Very smart those crows ; but I’am a good shot. |
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Post by gaspipe on Feb 18, 2021 5:45:54 GMT -8
When I was a kid my grandparents and most of my neighborhood were immigrants from Italy . I was an alter boy at the Italian church . The old Italian priest and many of the old timers used to love to eat birds . Their favorites? Starlings and robins.
So make yourself a meal ; although , you’d sure need a lot of hummingbirds .
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Post by leptraps on Feb 18, 2021 5:50:08 GMT -8
I feed the birds during the Winter. Especially during this extremely cold weather. I purchase 40 pound bags of Sunflower Seeds and Plain Bird Seeds. I go through a bag a week. During this extremely cold period, I will almost double that.
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Post by myotis on Feb 28, 2021 5:44:39 GMT -8
Last spring while driving to town there was a black and white flash in front of me and a thud. I stopped and looked around and found a dead red headed woodpecker. Knowing these have become much more uncommon recently I saved it and put it in the freezer. I felt terrible. I contacted our local DNR and explained the situation to them and asked if they wanted it or knew of a museum that might. They told me to dispose of it immediately (suggested just tossing it in the woods) and reminded me that nearly all birds are protected (except some invasives and ones with hunting seasons)under the over 100 year old migratory bird act and you did not want to get caught with a dead bird.
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Post by joachim on Feb 28, 2021 7:24:49 GMT -8
Just an idea
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