Posted on 10/18/2024 4:13:09 AM PDT by Libloather
He committed a fowl.
A hunter in the Canadian Arctic ruffled the feathers of a group of student “goose detectives” after he killed and ate one of the birds the youngsters were tracking from more than 3,500 miles away.
Devon Manik, an Inuit hunter, made a meal of the goose after shooting it dead, unaware that students in Dungarvan, Ireland had tagged about 100 brent geese for a school project to monitor the species’ flight path as it migrated between Ireland and the polar region, according to The Irish Times.
Manik said the waterfowl trek to the area in June and lay their eggs, providing a hearty meal for his mother and grandmother who “really love geese.”
“It tasted good,” Manik told the outlet.
“The reason why we hunt today is because it’s so expensive to live up here [in Arctic Canada]. Without hunting all of the food has to be shipped up. We hunt the geese subsistently as they are passing by.”
The fourth grade students from St. Mary’s Primary school for girls were working with scientists from the University of Exeter to track the migration path of the small, dark goose species that spend their winters in Ireland before flying to northwest Canada to breed, the outlet reported.
The bird then returns to the Irish shores with its gosling.
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I can understand the students being upset if the hunter ate their goose. But they shouldn’t have killed the hunter over it.
“The bird then returns to Ireland with its goslings.” Well, not THAT bird.
The guy was hungry, there was a meal out there and he had lunch. Nothing to cry over.
So the tracking device is sitting in this Inuit’s bowels and the scientists will be tracking his migratory behavior for a while.
Why did they kill the hunter?
Lol that’s how I read it as well.
FWIW, we’re in southern Ontario and my kids and grands hunt geese regularly. They freeze all of the meat, and when there’s lots of it they add ground pork and make sausage. It’s good....numerous flavours as well. Honey maple, jalepino, spinach and cheese, garlic....best goose sausage ever!
Hunter killed by dangling participles
I would assume that not all of the geese survive the migration, which is why the students tracked about 100 geese.
The students have closure. At least they know exactly what happened. Now the goose is a data point. 1 in 100 geese are killed and eaten by Inuits in Canada.
Oh well. I am glad the goose served a man and his family eking out an existence in brutal conditions.
Tell them kids to track Caribou next. It provides more meat.
interesting that food is so expensive they have to hunt and yet this goose was delivered by air. AND the guy was killed for it. sure glad I live in Florida. seems miami is safer.
Regards,
“Hunter killed by dangling participles”
That’s a great response! You paid attention to sentence diagramming in 4th grade.
My fave: Throw me down the stairs, a pack of cigarettes.
Do they show the same outrage at all the birds killed by windfarms? Especially the birds of prey and migratory birds.
Just the circle of life.
Among any other applicable judgments, he should be given a lifetime ban from Wawa.
At least he used a shotgun instead of a lead-filled snowshoe.
I hope they helped the guy out...geeez....what are we teaching our children.
Kill a baby but not a goose??
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