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The Gas Station Bird

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He is simply waiting for someone to move him from the filthy plastic bucket where he is tethered next to a gas pump. This may seem like government agency hair-splitting, but the calls needed to be made not to the wildlife division of the wildlife agency, but to the exotic species division of the wildlife agency.

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Owls, the debait

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She has clearly decided that for her baiting is not away to get a photo, and if one does get a photo that way then the ethical thing to do is to state that, much as one should do with captive animals. One wouldn’t tether a rabbit out to get a shot of a fox or a coyote, or is that somehow different? My own take on that mirrors it.

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