2 HAWKS SHOT, MAN CHARGED ONE BIRD SURVIVED, NURSED TO HEALTH.Byline: Kerry Cavanaugh Staff Writer NORTH HILLS - A 75-year-old North Hills man faces a $5,000 fine for shooting hawks with a shotgun because he feared they would harm the racing pigeons he kept in his back yard, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Friday. Martin Beck Martin Beck is a fictional police detective who is the main character in a series of ten novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö, collectively titled The Story of a Crime. The stories are often seen largely from his perspective, and hence are frequently referred to as the Martin Beck Landin is charged with killing a Cooper's hawk and wounding a red-tailed hawk in January, although authorities believe that many other birds were shot. He reached an agreement with the government and is expected to plead guilty June 7, officials said. Reached by phone Friday, Landin refused to comment. However, he told agents he owned as many as 80 homing pigeons homing pigeon see homing pigeon. , valued at up to $1,000 each, and that the hawks had threatened his pigeons. Shooting a hawk is a violation of the Migratory migratory /mi·gra·to·ry/ (mi´grah-tor?e) 1. roving or wandering. 2. of, pertaining to, or characterized by migration; undergoing periodic migration. migratory emanating from or pertaining to migration. Bird Treaty Act and is punishable by up to six months in prison and a $10,000 fine. Neighbors told investigators that for several months they had heard shotgun blasts and found dead birds in their yards. But because they didn't know it was a federal crime to kill a hawk, they buried the birds. On Jan. 12, one neighbor found a wounded red-tailed hawk and took it to the California Wildlife Center in Calabasas, which treated the raptor raptor In general, any bird of prey, including owls. The raptors are sometimes restricted to eagles, falcons, hawks, and vultures (birds of the order Falconiformes), all diurnal predators that “seize and carry off” (Latin raptare) their prey. for blood loss, shock and a wing fracture, and alerted authorities. The hawk has been recovering at the center and is expected to live out her normal 20-year life span. She is to be released in an informal ceremony today at 3 p.m. at the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Refuge wildlife refuge, haven or sanctuary for animals; an area of land or of land and water set aside and maintained, usually by government or private organization, for the preservation and protection of one or more species of wildlife. . ``It would have been much nicer if people who had found the hawks had notified the (California) Department of Fish and Game so we could have caught this guy sooner and saved a lot more hawks,'' said Diana Davis Dr. Diana Davis is a character from the fifth season of the science fiction show Sliders, played by Tembi Locke. She is a physicist with a PhD. Diana Davis is a scientist who was working with scientist Dr. Oberon Geiger in the development of sliding research. , hospital manager at the California wildlife center. Kerry Cavanaugh, (818) 713-3746 kerry.cavanaugh(at)dailynews.com |
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