Mourning The Mourning Dove
Its song is soft and plaintive, weaving a wistful aura around those who hear it. The pleasure of the mourning dove's call is the reason states like Wisconsin and Michigan long ago designated the songbird an official symbol of peace.
| Comments on article "Mourning The Mourning Dove" |
| Name |
Views and Comments | Date |
| zachary |
You should put more infermation |
3/19/2008 |
| Robert Boyle |
They should not be hunted |
9/15/2005 |
| C. L. Anderson |
Survival in the wild sometimes necessitates the act of hunting. Although I don't appreciate deer hunting, the meat does feed a large family. This said shooting an animal hardly larger than the bullet for nothing more than sport of target practice is senceless killing. The thought of it disgusts me. Please ban dove hunting. It's ruthless waste of an innocent animal. For those of you that throw the excuse of overpopulation out....Let me know when the hunt of overpopulated humans in NYC is going to be. |
5/30/2005 |
| Robyn Alleman |
Please read the email below from Michigan State Representative sent to my mother, a concerned citizen in regards to the Mourning Dove Bill:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Tabor"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: 6272
> yes I know. Have you ever watched a dove fall from the sky after you've
> shot it? Have you ever tasted them after wrapping them with bacon and
> lightly grilling them?
>
(Susan then replied again to my mother stating "let me guess. you don't eat meat right?")
>
>>>> "Pam Alleman" 11/10/2004 3:52:38 PM >>>
> I cant believe that the committee that meets today would consider this
> bill.
> Michigan has far more important and pressing issues than what animal to
> add to a hunting list. There are already plenty of game animals. Now
> they allow the killing of innocent doves; want to add sand hill cranes
> and possibly wolves to the list of game animals, what is next. I am
> really sickened by it. I travel a long way to work, and I see what all
> the additional people, cars, traffic, etc. are doing to the wildlife
> that does manage to exist, now THEY want to purposefully wipe animals
> out further by adding more animals to the "game list." What will be
> left to enjoy in this state. We have a lack of jobs, lack of good
> paying jobs, our land is getting all used up by houses, and now we allow
> the demise of our natural resources. What are you people thinking? The
> wildlife means a lot to me, why cant we preserve it in the true sense,
> not partake in the extermination of it. Some of these animals are not
> as renewable as you might think. Have you ever watched a dove build a
> nest and ever hatch their young and get them to fledge stage? That is a
> major feat. Doves build a very slight, shoddy nest to say it nicely.
> Their eggs and babies, dump out in the slightest breeze. If they are
> lucky enough to find an empty next, they may manage to raise their young
> from that. I can only see extinction coming out of dove hunting.
> Please consider the creatures God put here on this earth, just as He
> put us here on this earth and give them more respect and put an end to
> this never ending "game list" the committee is talking about in House
> Bill 6272.
>
>
>
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>
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11/11/2004 |
| Donna Lucas |
We need to get a drive together depicting a Mourning Dove with a tear of blood coming from it's eye with a caption " June 17th - the day Granholm made the Doves cry ! "
Did she sign the bill with a RED pen ? I'm so disappointed and betrayed !!! |
6/23/2004 |
| Donna Lucas |
What are the chances of stopping the killing of mourning doves now that the bill in Michigan has passed ? They are only wanting to kill these docile birds as a way of prepareing young kids for larger game . The adverage weight of a dove is 3.5 oz. to 5 oz. . It's like shooting fish in a barrel . It's bad enough to find deer in the woods with only their hind quarters missing due to that was the only part that was wanted , now they tell me that these young kids are going to bother plucking feathers and cooking these 3.5 oz. birds ? I don't think so ! Let's all admit , June 17 , 2004 was the day that Gov. Granholm made doves cry !!! What is the SPORT in killing trusting birds ? They call it management . I didn't know that anything was WRONG with the doves . They say they need to KILL them in order to make sure they will always be here . That is what I just read on Michigan Sportsman's website . What a CROCK !!!!! |
6/23/2004 | |
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