Lead Bullets Kill Condors

By Corey • October 8, 2007 • 3 comments

According to The Drinking Bird, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, who you can contact via email here, hasn’t yet signed (and will probably veto) a bill to ban lead bullets, which are accidentally eaten by critically-endangered California Condors. More information at the Center for Biological Diversity.

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Corey

Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

3 Responses to “Lead Bullets Kill Condors”

Dear Kitty. Some blog :: USA: will Schwarzenegger kill Californian condor? :: September :: 2007 Oct 9th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
[...] Even so, the future of these enormous scavengers is far from secure. The law does not cover lead shot used to hunt squirrels or … See also here. [...]
tami Jul 6th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
condor are such ugly bird. Let’s just kill them off.
Corey Jul 7th, 2010 at 6:02 am
@tami: You are such an ugly person. Let’s kill all the tamis off.

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