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<="headline"> A big stink at Vancouver tennis tourney <="author"> The Canadian Press July 21, 2008 at 3:19 PM EDT Vancouver — A bird carcass causing a stink at a Vancouver tennis tournament isn't going anywhere amid concerns that removing it could endanger the entire colony. The dead heron is hanging from a tree near the Rogers Open event at Stanley Park. The city's parks board says the fledgling likely fell out of the tree and died — not uncommon for the colony — and has been hanging from the tree for some time, much to the chagrin of those attending the tennis tourney below. But parks board chairwoman Korina Houghton says the bird won't be removed because doing so could disturb the large colony of endangered heron. Ms. Houghton says because herons are a protected species, parks officials don't want to disrupt or scare off any of the birds and put the surviving heron fledglings at risk.
She says the board's wildlife specialists have determined the dead bird doesn't pose a significant risk to people below, and it if it's still there it will be removed when the colony leaves — probably next month.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080721.wsmellybird0721/BNStory/National/home
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Sounds like the animal version of Check Point Charlie or a dead soldier in 'no mans land' in WW1.
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They don't want to disrupt or disturb the species, yet there's a tennis tournament going on under the heron nest.
I'm sure a biologist can poke the stinky dead bird with a long stick and remove it...toss it deep into the forest and let it be.
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Oh the ironies.
I choose the 'probably would be wise' option.
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Don't really care as I'm nowhere near the dead bird but if the heron was in my backyard I'd move it regardless. |
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Ahahha isn't it obvious you fools, it's a Red Plot. Let the bourgeois smell the dead bird, it reminds them of the peole they killed in Iraq and Afghanistan with their oil investments. I'm sure these subhuman are aroused by the smell anyway...  |
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Sportsdude wrote:
Sounds like the animal version of Check Point Charlie or a dead soldier in 'no mans land' in WW1.
How many time people were let to rot at Checkpoint Charlie outside of US fiction movies ??? Sound more like the desert north of Rio Grande actually to me...
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Heron aren't an endangered species, so I don't quite understand why they don't move the frickin dead bird. Or why they think it is endangered. It's a weird Stanley Park thing. |
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They're endangered in town. But still, indeed they exagerate, they could go there at night with a long pole and remove it quietly probably. It's the typical exagerated way of doing thing in Vancouver cos "we're so different" I think. Yes you're different, you're stupid.
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Apparently they're considered a 'blue' category endangered species??? I didn't even know there's a color code for endangered species. |
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hum, curious about that. They're not just blue herons ? Colony are sanctuary usually hard to find, and indeed should no be disturbed, while individuals are found everywhere.
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Hmmmmm.... you may be right there, Michel though I coulda sworn I read that somewhere in one of those freebie newspapers. |
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I find it amazing how inventive we have become. We have found yet another thing to whine about. I wonder if the next request would be to spritz the air with an expensive aromatic balm that enhances their grunting on the court. (uppity bunch, that lot....lol) |
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lo PC yeah we should go there and sue the players by pretending we smell some sweat. LOL care for a million $ out of court settlement ? |
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Maybe you read too fast Lise (or too early in the morning lol), or as Lil Me would put it, stop smoking drugs |
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