Subject: Re: PAWS & Peregrine
Date: Sep 20 13:16:51 1994
From: Eugene Hunn - hunn at u.washington.edu


David,

I list them on the SAS hotline because people frequently call about what
to do with injured birds. That one of two places to take them. If they
will take care of injured birds I think the political agenda of their
parent organization is irrelevant.

Gene Hunn (hunn at u.washington.edu)

On Tue, 20 Sep 1994 wrightdb at pigsty.dental.washington.edu wrote:

> A few weeks ago someone on tweeters mentioned a rumor that PAWS had
> euthanized the young male tiercel that was born in Seattle this year.
> That rumor would seem to be confirmed by an article on Seattle's
> Peregrines by Julia Bent in this month's _Earthcare Northwest_. She
> states that someone from PAWS called a member of the Falcon Research Group
> to report that PAWS had received the tiercel with a broken wing and
> euthanized it.
>
>
> Presuming this is true, it raises a couple of questions. Is it likely
> that vets with the FRG would have euthanized the bird for a broken wing?
> And does PAWS have authority to euthanize a member of an endangered
> species?
>
>
> I'm not sure why Seattle Audubon has any kind of affiliation with PAWS
> (e.g., listing PAWS as a place to take injured birds in Earthcare NW).
> Last spring PAWS [if memory serves, it was them and not PETA...] ran a
> full-page ad in the UW _Daily_ denouncing Sievert Rohwer's (Burke Mus.)
> bird collecting trip to Siberia. They are against research on animals,
> and I would not be surprised to someday find them protesting mist-netting
> and banding of birds.
>
>
> David Wright
> dwright at u.washington.edu
>