At 10:44 AM 7/24/2006, Richard M. Gillingham wrote:
>Joking aside, the osprey is probably close to to the top of the avian food
>chain in your neighborhood, so he's probably not afraid of many things. The
>ideas for obstructing his perch are probably the most practical. Then
>there's always the shotgun. Is the osprey a protected species??
Almost all "top of the food chain" species are protected under CITES, as
well as a whole raft of migratory species that are protected in one form or
another.
US Fish and Wildlife Service has a huge amount of data
http://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/intrnltr/mbta/compare.pdf
And sure enough, Ospreys are covered.
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