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Article from a suburban Chicago newspaper

December 30, 2009

By BILL BIRD wbird@scn1.com
A passerby or homeowner made a grisly discovery Tuesday evening in a residential area of Naperville’s far northwest side: a cluster of four dead Canada geese with their chest cavities missing.

Naperville police late Tuesday night were completing their investigation into the apparent slaughter, which was discovered about 8:04 p.m. in the Brookdale neighborhood.

“The initial report is being taken by a police officer, with appropriate follow-up” by Naperville police or another agency yet to be determined, Cmdr. Ray Adkins said.

A neighborhood resident or passerby discovered the bodies of the geese on a parkway on the 1200 block of Langley Circle, a block or two west of Bainbridge Greens Park.

Adkins said the initial telephone call received by police indicated “the chest cavities of all four (geese) seem to be missing.” A police and fire emergency radio report broadcast just after 8 p.m. declared the fatal injuries did “not seem to (have been) done by an animal.”

Canada geese were among the first animals and plants to be protected under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Web site.

The geese by 2001 were considered “recovered” and removed from the federal list of threatened and endangered species, the Web site indicated. It is still illegal to hunt or kill them, as they remain protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, according to the Web site.

Flocks of geese now spend their winters in the Chicago area rather than migrating further south. Many consider them to be a nuisance because of their droppings and sometimes aggressive natures.

Adkins said he was not certain which state or federal agency might step in to investigate the deaths of the geese.

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Thanks David

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