Bill, this is near where you are, no?
They throw you under the jail if you step foot on a rookery around here. I live on a lake now and it has three islands designated as state WMA’s (wildlife management area). You can bird watch from your boat, that’s it.
Volleyball Hooligans!
Because these idiots have no clue, these islands ought to be off limits during the nesting season of all sea birds. There should be strict enforcement of this ban with sizable fines.
Idiots! Where I live we have speed limits and roped-off areas for our Skimmers.
Just as long they ban Female volleyball tournaments!
Worse than wind turbines.
Were there no signs posted saying this is a protected area?
Sometimes I think there is truth to that increasingly popular belief that teenage brains are still not completely formed, and wont be until about 19. Then I think that I would never have done this, at least not in such great numbers. Hundreds of baby birds??? No. I’ve never been that young or that drunk. It takes time and work to do all that.
I generally side with anyone but the environmentalists but this time I think just killing bird for your convenience is awful.
I would think that some investigative work might turn up some leads; locals that saw somebody, a group of cars that turned up on surveillance cameras to or from the route to the nesting sites, somebody bragging on social media about what they did, a reward for information, etc.
I grew up in Mobile and fished these waters for years.
Everybody (most) who care about the critters that inhabit the area are respectful and love them.
I’m not sure what “island” they are talking about, but it’s probably Sand island. A transient barrier sand spit.
It was big when I was young, but through the years and some storms it’s pretty small now.
Bunch of dumb a** drunk kids.
They didn’t care in the least.
The left will use this event to try and have the island declared a bird sanctuary and close it during nesting season.
That’s what the National Park Service does to portions of the Outer Banks during Piping Plover nesting.
There are 50 miles of beach that are not connected to the mainland and reached via private ferry then 4WD access only.
The bird prefer the flats at the points. At the first sign of a plover’s next the park service ropes off vehicle access.
Few years back the Yankees had an outfielder-Dave Winfield that was in Toronto and hit a seagull with a baseball.
I think they charged him and he had to miss a trip or two to Canada because of it.
It was ‘rumored’ he claimed that if he could hit a flying bird with a baseball and kill it, he was wasting his time playing baseball (Or something like that)
An egg is a baby bird?
Not to hear pro-aborts in the media tell it.
This is really horrible. Not only the very significant dent the destruction of a new generation of baby terns represents, but the completely callous attitudes of these pitiful ignorant slobs. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve encountered idiots at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge letting their kids chase birds, picking flowers or seashells, tramping all over fragile beach vegetation in No Access areas, leaving trash behind—you name it, I’ve seen it. If I see it happening, I most definitely tell the perp off in no uncertain terms. If possible, I get one of the rangers to go after them as well. Especially around here, a wildlife refuge is such a special thing, a gift for the weary soul to refresh itself.
Their idiots. My neighbor caught up 2 baby chickens that got into his pasture from one of my hens. He put them in a bucket in the blazing sun thinking that they like the heat and would survive. I told him next time just let them be. My yard chickens are subject to all manner of farmyard death but to do what he did was completely idiotic.