[TowerTalk] Towers and Sea Birds

[Jim Lux]

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.