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[div id="headline"]                [h2]A big stink at Vancouver tennis tourney[/h2]           [/div]             [div id="author"]                                       [p class="source"]The Canadian Press[/p]                                [p class="article-date"]July 21, 2008 at 3:19 PM EDT[/p]          [/div]                                                                                                                        [!-- dateline --]Vancouver[!-- /dateline --] — 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.[/p]    The dead heron is hanging from a tree near the Rogers Open event at Stanley Park.[/p]   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.[/p]   But parks board chairwoman Korina Houghton says the bird won't be removed because doing so could disturb the large colony of endangered heron.[/p]                                                                                                                                                                                   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.
 [/p] She says the board's wildlife spetgwpdts 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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Sounds like the animal version of Check Point Charlie or a dead soldier in 'no mans land' in WW1.

 

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.
 
 
   

Oh the ironies.
I choose the 'probably would be wise' option.
 

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.

     

     
 
 

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.  

     

Apparently they're considered a 'blue' category endangered species??? I didn't even know there's a color code for endangered species.

     

Hmmmmm.... you may be right there, Michel though I coulda sworn I read that somewhere in one of those freebie newspapers.  

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)

     

     

Its a damn bird. Move it.

I'm thinking that if it bothered them, why didn't they just move it.  No announcement, no requests, no ceremony, no news team, no authorities, no servants.....just an old tennis racket would have done the trick.  Instead, they make a federal case out of a little stink.

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P.C. wrote:
 I'm thinking that if it bothered them, why didn't they just move it.  No announcement, no requests, no ceremony, no news team, no authorities, no servants.....just an old tennis racket would have done the trick.  Instead, they make a federal case out of a little stink.

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We agree!

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 Morning miss PC!

     

P.C. wrote:
  [em]...just an old tennis racket would have done the trick.
 
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 [/em]That would have been the start of an international incident!
   

How true Lil Me.  We truly have become a nation of nit-pickers.  Everybody thinks everything is everybody elses responsibility.

  I watched some woman on the news a couple weeks back tearing strips off the police for not responding to her 911 call after she had accidently locked her own baby in her car.  WHO CALLS THE POLICE FOR A LOCKED CAR DOOR ????!!!!!  Call a locksmith for heavens sake ! (and shame on the media for thinking this is news worthy !)