Those who protested, or even just silently deplored, the slaughter of cormorants by "Wildlife Services" and our Division of Wildlife, have some reason to celebrate long-delayed judicial controls on the slaughter. Here is a recent news release and a Scientific American article that are encouraging. Good birding, Bill Whan http://www.peer.org/news/news-releases/court-finds-cormorant-mass-killing-policy-illegal.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-courts-crack-down-on-feds-over-mass-wildlife-culls/?WT.mc_id=send-to-friend ______________________________________________________________________ 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]