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Animal agency up in arms over shooting of sparrow Wednesday, November 16, 2005 Page A18 Amsterdam -- The Dutch animal-protection agency demanded prosecution yesterday after the shooting of a sparrow that had knocked over 23,000 dominoes during a group's attempt to set a record. The ill-fated bird flew into an exposition centre Monday in the northern city of Leeuwarden, where employees of TV station Endemol NV had worked for weeks setting up more than four million dominoes in an attempt to break the official Guinness World Record for falling dominoes. The sparrow belonged to a species on the national endangered list. The Endemol organizers, who are out to break their own record of 3,992,397 dominoes during a live television broadcast on Friday, defended the killing. AP