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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (94292)	1/21/2005 4:11:23 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I am amazed that any cranes are being hunted. How sick and twisted are people, anyway? Of course I personally don't believe in hunting on any level, but at least a lot of people enjoy eating ducks and geese. What does crane taste like? How can people feel joy shooting down and murdering a beautiful bird soaring across the sky? I just don't get it. Cranes live over twenty years and mate for life. And whooping cranes are so threatened with total extinction. In China, they are a symbol of long life. Perhaps we need more symbolism in America!

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (94292)	1/21/2005 4:38:21 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Sandhill Crane taste a lot like Bald Eagle. But seriously, attitudes have changed enormously in one generation. Every fall millions of raptors, that don’t like to fly over water, funnel down Lake Superior and fly over our town. In the past 10 years it’s become a real destination for birders. My father-in-law tells when he was a teenager, he and his buddies used to go up the hill and take pot shots at hawks. I vaguely remember going on one of those expeditions with my older brother and his pals. It is absolutely inconceivable anyone would do that today. For one thing, if you tried it, the birders wouldn’t let you get off the hill alive.