On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Rob Conway wrote:
> Michael and Tweets,
>
> Some hunters are better about this than others (I defend none of them
> however). I used to go hunting with my father, uncles, and grandfather
> and when I was VERY young (5 or 6) it was my job to identify birds
> before they were shot at whether it was shouting "HEN" or "ROOSTER" when
> a pheasant was flushed or saying "Teal" "Mallard" "NO DUCK" "Snow" "Swan
> - NO SHOT" when hunting waterfowl. I will tell you that at dawn and

I'm not sure if I remember this wholly correctly, but I think the Nebraska
record of Ancient Murrelet was actually bagged by a duck hunter who
thought it was a teal.

The Nebraska record of Mottled Duck was also a hunting casualty though not
fatality. A hunter-birder winged it, then found it alive, realized what
it was and kept it on his farm, documented it, etc.

RK

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