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Around twenty years ago my dearly departed father had a multi-year war with an acorn woodpecker. The little pecker liked to hide its nuts under my dad's roof sh
by hirundo 6y ago
Around twenty years ago my dearly departed father had a multi-year war with an acorn woodpecker. The little pecker liked to hide its nuts under my dad's roof shingles. Those birds are outstandingly persistent and after a while and enough nuts they would pry up the shingles. Maybe a quarter of the shingles on one side were affected at most. About once a year my dad would go out on the steep roof and repair it.
After a few years of that he got fed up and shot the bird with a bb gun. He didn't find a corpse but didn't see it again. And that shot apparently solved the problem. It must've been just that one bird.
He may have broken state or federal law though.
- dmoy 6y ago> He may have broken state or federal law though. Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act, yes It was probably federally illegal
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- s1artibartfast 6y agoUnlikely. AS I understand it, most woodpeckers are not migratory.
- dmoy 6y agoRight but the federal migratory bird act covers a ton of birds that aren't what you or I would consider migratory For whatever reason, basically every species of woodpecker in the US is classified as migratory non-game, and thus it's federally illegal to hunt them The only way you can legally shoot a woodpecker is with a depredation permit by the USFWS
- MisterTea 6y ago> "dearly departed father" ... "shot the bird with a bb gun" ... "He didn't find a corpse" Somewhere, a stash of acorns rests upon on a grave.