The law in Scotland permits their use without any training in how to handle and kill birds humanely.

He knew the way to handle birds of Jubal's feather.

It is best not to handle live or dead wild birds.

I recommend you take stout sticks to handle snakes and birds.

Supermarkets, he maintains, handle birds poorly, dumping them into freezers just barely under 32 degrees.

How should I handle wild birds?

Not even farmers who handled sick birds every day had become ill.

Health organizations warn against handling dead birds, and against contact with bird droppings.

But Joe Cardona was used to handling tough birds like this.

He has the firm but gentle grasp that a man might have after a life of handling canary birds.