Yesterday's Sandusky Register ran photos of dumpsters crammed with dead birds being hauled away across from Turning Point Island. This is the only one of several Ohio Lake Erie sites where cormorants are being shot that's visible to landlubbers. The article offers a link to protests from Canadian groups. As far as I know, no Ohio ornithologists or birders have made public any protests. Of course the scientists rely on the DOW for funds, and the birders already have Phalocrocorax auritus on their precious lists. The article's at http://www.sanduskyregister.com/news/environment/7914861 and it offers a link to some Canadian protests. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]