Reply #2: Adopt them out? I hope not

[Xithras]

Hawaii has enough problems with non-native animals screwing up the environment. How many people would be willing to adopt them knowing that they'd have to be kept within a caged or securely fenced yard all their lives? And how fair would that be to the birds...to be isolated in small fenced yards away from their kind?

I don't have a problem with them putting the birds down, but they certainly should have found a better way to do it. Archers? Are we stuck in the 14th century or something? What's wrong with dart guns and poison tranqs? How about cages and gas? There are many ways they could have taken these birds down without making them suffer like that. Heck, taking a shotgun and SHOOTING them would have been more humane than allowing them to slowly bleed to death with a metal spike shoved through their bodies.

Someone should be fired and prosecuted for this.