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...many among the 10 million North American bird watchers, it was almost as if John James Audubon had been exposed as a forger or the American eagle reclassified as a turkey vulture. In fact, the American Ornithologists' Union, the Vatican of bird watching, has come perilously close to such heresy. A pronunciamento in the A.O.U. magazine Auk stripped the Baltimore oriole of its name; henceforth Icterus galbula will be known by the prosaic name "northern oriole." A dozen other busted species include the European teal (to green-winged teal), Audubon's warbler and the myrtle warbler (to yellow...
Environmentalists sharply dispute the sheep ranchers' claim that the coyotes are now slaughtering 800,000 lambs per year. Says National Audubon Society President Elvis J. Stahr: "The figures ... are unreliable, unscientific and quite possibly self-serving. Poisons simply are not the answer to the coyote problem. If they were, the problem should no longer exist." Despite its preference for aerial shooting and trapping, however, the EPA agreed last month to permit the use of the M44 on private land. Since roughly 12 million sheep graze at least part of the time on federal land, wool growers soon may seek...
...fund-raising show for Maude's local library). Later in the season Maude will even have a face-lifting, after conceding that she feels "like an old hen with a turkey's neck and crow's-feet-I could be the centerfold for the Audubon Society." Her on-camera rejuvenation will be accomplished with tape and makeup, but the idea for the show came from Bea Arthur herself, who plans to have the real thing during the mid-season hiatus...
...endangered species is another man's backyard pest. That modern-age anomaly is the crux of a dispute between the National Audubon Society and Louisiana's Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wild Life. Arguing that a surplus of alligators was eating up such income-producing wildlife as muskrats and waterfowl, Louisiana reopened the swamplands in Cameron Parish to hunters last fall after an eight-year ban. In 13 days, 1,347 alligator hides were turned over to state authorities to be auctioned off to private businessmen. The Audubon Society, which long ago branched out from birds...
Louisiana officials know that there is more than one way to skin a gator. Still determined to thin out the swamp population, they recently "offered" more than 2,000 of the reptiles to the Audubon Society. The organization's leaders bravely accepted the gift, and plan to truck the alligators to refuges in other Southern states. In the bargain, Audubon officials also got some free advice from William Summerville, general curator of the Staten Island Zoo in New York City: "Keep their backs sprayed while they're in the truck so they don't dry out. Make...