SEA-BIRDS SHOT
The sea-birds along the Paraparaumu coast are fed by residents and visitors and have become so tame that redbilled gulls .will at times take food from one’s hand. Immediately a car pulls up and the occupants bring out their lunch baskets the sea-birds come around. To shoot such birds appears to me, says a correspondent of the Forest and Bird Protection Society, to be the very antithesis of sport, and a cowardly act; yet I noticed two men shooting at them with a pea rifle from a car. One red-billed gull was lying at the water’s edge where food had been placed to decoy the birds. On seeing me the shooters left, and _ I noticed that the sand had been disturbed alongside Iheir car. On digging there I found the bodies of several birds which had been shot.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25866, 9 June 1945, Page 2
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