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APRIL 11, 2023

This was illegal, because according to FWC regulations, if you already own a pet that has been deemed invasive or illegal, you are allowed to keep it until its natural death, and it will not be confiscated or euthanized. Reptiles that are not treated ethically simply do not make good pets.

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Pythons illegal Florida Killing 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

It’s easy to choke it with food while you’re feeding it and chances are good that you’d raise the chick like a pet and you’d end up with an adult bird that doesn’t know what its predators are and seek humans for food and mating…aka an unreleasable bird. Owls are a little different.

Birds 266

Birds Fox Raised Ducks 266

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Can’t go wrong with large macaws: Blue-and-yellow Macaw There were more than a couple Sulphury Flycatchers hunting among the vegetation – it was probably a decade since I had last laid eyes on one. I had never before seen a Limpkin do this. It would hold its wing out as it walked.

Farming 237

Farming Guyana Birds South America 237

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unfortunately, Hen Harriers die disproportionally near British Grouse moors – most likely killed illegally by people hunting grouse for sports ( source ). On the other hand, in the West, mice, and rats are also kept as pets, maybe with the same logic. Possibly a survivor of siblicide (which would make it a killer, right?).

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Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 230