Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2015
She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. The newest find of this extremely scarce bird was a male, and was “collected” (an innocent-sounding euphemism for “killed”) for the American Museum of Natural History. The justification was ridiculously laughable: in order to further study the species.
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