Fwd: "double-breasted" cormorant article (AP article)

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From: Charles Swift <chaetura@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:48 PM
Subject: "double-breasted" cormorant article (AP article)
To: inland birders <inland-nw-birders@uidaho.edu>


Hi All -

This AP article was run in our local paper yesterday. I almost laughed out loud when I saw the reference to "double-breasted" cormorant. Unfortunately the rest of the article is no laughing matter. Seems to me if the US Army Corps exercises their permit to take 60 Cormorants between Lower Granite Dam and Lewiston that will effectively reduce the local population considerably (assuming this can be called a local population). Apparently stomach contents from some (how many??) cormorants analyzed last winter indicated they were eating primarily American Schad (a non-native fish species in the Columbia R. system) but they want to try again later in the winter. There are some other eyebrow raising points made in this article.

http://www.komonews.com/outdoors/featured/37058399.html



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Charles Swift
Moscow, ID
chaetura@gmail.com

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Charles Swift
Moscow, ID
chaetura@gmail.com