Machi the Whimbrel Gunned Down by Hunters
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
And though the satellite transmitter let Machi be tracked it did not protect it from the hunters’ guns. It is estimated that tens of thousands of shorebirds continue to be taken annually by hunting clubs on just these three islands. The last Eskimo Curlew known to science was shot on Barbados in 1963.
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