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WINDSOR, Ontario, May 2 (UPI) -- Canadian environmental officials reported killing 72 double-crested cormorants in a campaign to save a southwestern Ontario island from their droppings.
The controversial shooting campaign began Wednesday in a bid to reduce the colony on Lake Erie's Middle Island from 4,026 nests to between 438 and 876 nests, the Windsor Star reported.
Point Pelee National Park superintendent Marian Stranak said there would be no shooting Friday "to give the birds a break," the newspaper said.
Stranak said most of the birds killed were collected for research by the Canadian Wildlife Service for research, while others were left on the ground to decompose so vegetation isn't damaged.
The federal Environment Canada agency won a court ruling earlier this year in its bid to reduce the cormorant population. The agency claimed guano from the birds is ruining the island's ecosystem.
The federal plan is to kill thousands of cormorants over five years to reach population levels where the guano won't diminish native flora, the report said.
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