Crow Busters Forum

Definitely a few skillet shots in there.

There is a fellow here at a local spillway that I run into on occasion while stripe fishing. He works for some branch of the federal department of wildlife, can't remember which one. He is not a game warden, but it is his job to take out nuisance animals on federal lands or when states request it. He has camped for weeks on the gulf coast islands trapping rabbits, shot buzzards from interstate signage, and one time spent a couple of weeks at JFK (I think that was it) shooting sea gulls that were interfering with air traffic. He said that was a cool assignment except for all the paper work that went into it. He said each bird had to be inspected and weighed and measured and any bands removed and recorded. There was a big deal about the way the carcasses had to disposed of. They started before daylight and were still weighting birds at 10 or 11 each night and then all guns had to be cleaned before they could hit the rack. He said it was some of the most tiring and most fun all at the same time he had ever had. I forgot how many they killed in a 2 week period but it was in the thousands. I remember him saying they had to shoot steel because they were protected under the migratory laws.

He said his permits would allow him to even kill up to 2 eagles if needed but he said he could never envision a time where that would be necessary.

Is that not the coolest job ever??? They MAKE him practice his shooting, fishing, trapping, and outdoors skills. Makes me jealous anyway. Where do I sign up?