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To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (2210)	11/3/1998 8:55:00 PM
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LOOKS LIKE YOU MIGHT GET PROTECTION FROM THE GOVERNMENT Yahoo! News Oddly Enough Headlines Tuesday November 3 5:42 PM EDT Short-tailed albatross may get formal U.S. protection By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The short-tailed albatross -- once almost driven to extinction by Japanese hunters -- would get official protection in the United States under a plan released Monday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The agency proposed extending endangered-species status for the bird to its U.S. range, which includes Alaska's Aleutian Islands and the northwest Hawaiian Islands. The short-tailed albatross had been listed for 25 years as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, the agency said. But due to an administrative oversight, that status covered only the bird's Japanese nesting places. The Fish and Wildlife Service proposal, if approved by the government, would go into effect within a year. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Greg Balough said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its National Marine Fisheries Service already treated the short-tailed albatross as endangered, and imposed restrictions on commercial fishing methods that could kill some of the birds, he said. Short-tailed albatross populations, which nest in Japan, were once so plentiful that when seen from a distance the white birds were mistaken for falling snow, according to historical accounts. But from 1887 to 1902, commercial hunters killed at least five million of the birds, mostly to sell their feathers, Balough said. ''These birds are really approachable. You just walk up to their nesting sites and bonk them, and they bonked about five million of them,'' he said. The birds also suffered from volcanic eruptions and further hunting, and by 1951 no more than 50 remained, he said. Balough said there were now about 1,000 of the birds. I BET YOU WISH YOU WERE ONE OF THESE BIRDS AURIC, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THE SEC IS ABOUT TO BONK ONE MORE BIRD SEE YA