On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Tom Foote wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Kelly Cassidy wrote:
> >
> > Besides all of the arguments that came up re: for and against netting
> > Montlake Phil, netting the parakeets would pose an interesting dilemma:
> > If you were to net and band them, would it be ethical to re-release
> > an introduced species?
>
> Kelly--
>
> why not net them and give them to Mike Waller...that would get
> them out of competition with the locals...

When the discussion of the parakeets first came up there was a brief and
very inconclusive exchange on whether they were in fact in competition
with any *existing* indigenous species. It seems to me that the
conclusion was that they were not.

dale goble
moscow