“He collects roadkill to feed his birds”
His birds?
What? Does he raise vultures, or provide sanctury to raptors?
Sounds kind of strange however...
Years ago I knew a guy who worked for the New Jersey DOT and his job was to cruise NJ roads cleaning up roadkill, he would take the carcasses home, he would remove hide, flatten it, separate the hides with butcher paper and freeze it. Then periodically he would take a spin up to NYC to some furriers up there and he would sell the furs to the furriers. He used to make around $5k a year doing that, and this is back in the 70s... which was pretty good money back then.
I also went to high school with a guy that used to pick up roadkill but he was studying Taxidermy and he would make and he would practice Taxidermy on the critters. HE he had squirrels and raccoons and all kinds of mounted animals in his basement, he was totally into taxidermy and he was pretty good at it.
Where I live is all suburbs with small, secluded wooded areas that are filled with deer. I've even got pictures on my trail camera of a couple deer eating the bird seed from my bird feeder right off my back deck.
Because they're all suburbs here in S.E. Michigan, they can't be hunted. The only means of controlling them is hitting them with your car. Works every time.