Sentences with phrase «killing migratory birds»

«The Service works cooperatively with companies that make all reasonable efforts to avoid killing migratory birds during design, construction and operation of industrial facilities,» said William Woody, Assistant Director for Law Enforcement of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Citing three cases having nothing to do with cats (or any other predators), Hatley argues that such «cases raise the question of whether a person violates the MBTA when that person releases a cat into the wild, and that cat kills a migratory bird.»

[FN73] Further, the court declared that the MBTA can be applied to impose criminal penalties on those who did not intend to kill migratory birds, because the guilty act alone was sufficient to make out the crime.

These cases raise the question of whether a person violates the MBTA when that person releases a cat into the wild, and that cat kills a migratory bird.

In a letter sent to the park service Monday, lawyers for New York - based Fund for Animals argued that the plan to drop poison pellets from helicopters over Anacapa, an island off the Ventura County coast, would unintentionally kill migratory birds, a violation of federal law.

That means if you accidentally kill a migratory bird with your car, for example, or a bird slams into your living room picture window, technically you have committed a misdemeanor, despite the fact it was unintentional.

Not exact matches

Pesticides kill tens of thousands of migratory birds on their wintering grounds.

The avian influenza that killed 1000 or more migratory birds at Lake Qinghai in western China in mid-May may represent a new and more lethal form of the HN51 virus, Chinese researchers report.

Authorities have culled 2.8 million domestic chickens and ducks since the outbreak began, and the strain has also killed dozens of Baikal teal and other migratory birds.

Because the Migratory Bird Treaty Act prohibits killing birds who are not actually damaging crops, Wildlife Services poisoned 250,000 blackbirds in 1994 as the purported beginning of a five - year «scientific experiment.

A national debate has simmered since a 2013 study by the Smithsonian's Migratory Bird Center and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concluded that cats kill up to 3.7 billion birds and 20.7 billion small mammals annually in the United States.

[FN66] The MBTA makes it unlawful to, at any time and by any means or manner,»... take, capture, kill, attempt to take, capture, or kill... any migratory bird,... nest, or egg of any such bird...» [FN67] Under the violations and penalties section of the MBTA, any person, association, partnership, or corporation who violates the provisions of the MBTA is guilty of a misdemeanor and, if convicted, can be fined up to $ 15,000 or imprisoned up to six months, or both.

Critics of windmill farms say they kill birds because they often are located in migratory routes.

Alternative energy is a joke, which doesn't take into account anything other than the fact that they burn clean as the so - called environmentalists want to believe that the only problem that exists today is global warming (nevermind the other problems exist, nevermind that mining is ruining our world as well, nevermind that cell phone towers are killing between 5 and 50 million migratory song birds every year or that dams are killing the salmon off, no none of this matters apparently).

No More «Bird Massacres» Many experts believe the ban has distorted that tradition and led to reckless hunting, like a controversial incident this past spring when a man killed dozens of migratory storks in north Lebanon and posted pictures of himself with his dead prey on Facebook.

Although there is no current provision for a federal permit to harm or kill these birds (called a «take permit») under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), ABC suggests that the FWS should consider this option as soon as possible, so that it can be used as an additional tool for proper siting and operation of future wind energy facilities.

Meanwhile, 1,000 migratory birds have been killed at the Ivanpah facility and a fine was not charged.

Wind turbine companies, officers and employees, however, are immune from prosecution, fines or imprisonment, regardless of how many rare, threatened, endangered or migratory birds and bats they kill.

pointed out that Exxon violated the migratory bird treaty act and paid a fine of $ 600,000 for 85 birds killed on its property.