HONOLULU, HAWAII– A Pennsylvania man who was recently in Hawaii during an endangered bird hunting expedition has been receiving backlash from seagull rights groups after he mistakenly killed a common seagull instead of his intended target, which was an extremely rare palila bird.
Henry Schafer, 43, was in Honolulu this week with a group of other hunters with the intention of killing the elusive palila bird for no reason other than it’s almost extinct.
The palila is a critically endangered finch-billed species of Hawaiian honeycreeper with only approximately 1,000 in existence.
The exceedingly scare bird is native to Hawaii and is not found anywhere else in the world, which is why so many hunters travel there to shoot it in an effort to decrease the numbers even more.
According to a police report filed by seagull rights activists, Schafer was on the Kailua Beach with his AR-15 rifle when he spotted the evasive palila using its endangered privilege to steal pizza crust out of the mouth of an innocent, starving seagull.
The report went on to say that the entitled palila punched the seagull repeatedly with its wing before taking the pizza crust from the poor, hungry seagull.
Seagull rights activist Becky Rotunder told CNN Hawaii News reporters that the prejudiced hunter Schafer shot and killed the seagull intentionally, not by accident as he claims, because he too enjoys being privileged.
“This is another fine example of prejudiced hunter brutality,” Rotunder said angrily to news reporters. “Yet another innocent seagull died today while an entitled palila bird once again got away with using its endangered privilege.”
Many pro seagull supporters took to Twitter to voice their displeasure at the way authorities did absolutely nothing in response to the seagull murder and are calling on Congress to capture and then execute every rare palila bird as a way to make amends.
“Why do these palila birds have federal protection?” Rotunder asked as she held up a ‘seagull lives matter’ sign. “This is just another example of endangered privilege. These empowered palilas and their enablers have gotten away with this injustice for too long.”
Even though the hunter Schafer has officially apologized for killing one out of billions of ubiquitous seagulls and says that he’ll now kill as many endangered animals as he can to make up for it, seagull rights groups say that it’s not enough.
“What about the next disenfranchised seagull that loses its life to some toxic, gun happy hunter with bird prejudice? There’s only billions of seagulls in this world, so we can’t afford to lose any more. Do you mean to tell me that a mere thousand palila lives are more important than billions of seagull lives?”
