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CATS for Cats

4 The Love Of Animals

The stars turned out for the 2nd annual CATS for Cats charity event on Saturday, July 14, 2012 at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. Janel was Rumpleteazer and Brendan was Mungojerrie in the one-night only charity event. IAMS was the proud sponsor of the one-night-only celebrity benefit concert staged from T.S.

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Pied Oystercatcher nesting

10,000 Birds

There are sixteen pairs of Pied Oystercatchers and they have varying success at raising young birds. The main problem appears to be feral cats, but there is also predation from birds of prey and the parent Pied Oystercatchers do their utmost to protect their young. The last time they successfully raised a chick was in 2012.

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Pied Oystercatcher breeding season starts early!

10,000 Birds

This pair of Pied Oystercatchers has been successful on one occasion and that was in 2012. I say “luck” because there is a problem with predation by feral cats and it really is beyond their control as it were. Sadly we don’t expect them to successfully raise chicks this early in the season, but you never know!

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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©2012 Donna L. FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. This Tufted Titmouse was found stunned in the glass corridor several years after the feeders were taken down, showing that clear glass and vegetation are not a good combination any time.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers. 78(1):61–78. ca 1630–1647.

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