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European starlings, American crows, Canada geese, and common grackles are among 22 wild bird species on the government's hit list in Arkansas. These innocent wild birds face painful deaths by gassing and toxic egg baits. Speak up now to save them from our own federal government!

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services plans to kill Canada geese while adults are molting and unable to fly. Geese and their goslings are often placed in mobile gas chambers, a particularly cruel and painful method of killing high-flying migratory birds who are used to dramatic differences in air pressure. Entire families will be traumatized and gassed to death.

Egg-eating birds like European starlings, American crows, and common grackles may be killed with the avicide DRC-1339. Birds who eat poisoned eggs laced with DRC-1339 return to their roosts, suffer from kidney failure and die slow, painful deaths.

Killing wild birds doesn't reduce their numbers in the long-term, it only makes room for other families to take over the habitat. Effective nonlethal stewardship strategies utilize a multi-pronged approach with habit modification, population stabilization, and site aversion. In its Environmental Assessment, Wildlife Services even lists nonlethal methods like pruning trees to discourage roosting and using bird-proof feeders for farmed animals.

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