Readers speak: This mighty Connecticut raptor should not have died

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Readers speak: This mighty Connecticut raptor should not have died

For a decade, a female Great Horned Owl has nested in an Old Saybrook cemetery, thrilling birders and ordinary passers-by.  Earlier this month, she died. Officials said she had eaten a rat that had been poisoned – and the rat poison killed her, too. There’s a better way to get rid of rats, a method Hartford is using to great success: rodent contraceptive. Raptors can eat all the non-reproducing rats they want and not get harmed. The chief villai…