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JULY 24, 2014

New Year’s Day 2014. Obviously, I am talking of Feral Pigeons (also called city, town or street pigeons). The scientific name of the Feral Pigeon is Columba livia domestica and that last world tells the story. The scientific name of the Feral Pigeon is Columba livia domestica and that last world tells the story.

Feral 259

Feral Meat Species Serbia 259

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JANUARY 19, 2014

Outlook and goals for 2014. In a funny twist of fate, it seems that 2014 will be much the same as 2012 and 2013 have been, with family trips to somewhere in France and business trips to Indonesia and Kazakhstan. What about the competitive element in my 2014 year list? A very good start into 2014. See more than 20 lifers.

2014 145

2014 France Germany Indonesia 145

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FEBRUARY 23, 2014

The Feral Pigeon has many virtues to admire, but who is going to brag about encountering one of those? As much as I love hearing about and sharing Best Birds of the Weekend, sometimes I have cause to ponder just what that term means. Obviously, the birds themselves are not jockeying for recognition.

2014 195

2014 Feral Asia China 195

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JANUARY 15, 2014

Rock Dove, or Feral Pigeon, ( Columba livia ); Kota Kinabalu, Borneo, 2 January. Whimbrel ( Numenis phaeopus ); Pasir Ris, Singapore, 11 January. LARIDAE (GULLS AND TERNS). Kelp Gull, or Southern Black-backed Gull, ( Larus dominicanus ), Wellington, New Zealand, 12 January. COLUMBIDAE (PIGEONS).

2014 150

2014 New Zealand Singapore Rhinoceros 150

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JULY 29, 2018

There has been one successful clutch of three eggs since 2000 that we are aware of and that was in 2014. The animal is most likely a feral cat along that stretch of beach, but we also can’t discount a feral fox having encountered a dead one close to Broome recently. Pied Oystercatcher nest in the rocky sandstone.

Eggs 124

Eggs Feral Cats Feral 2018 124

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

However, there appears to have been an upward change in their population, at least in Scotland, where a recent RSPB survey found that a cooperative conservation program has increased the population there from 400 singing males in the early 1990s to 1,289 calling males in 2014. In Rare Birds of North America (PUP, 2014), Steven N.G.

New York 167

New York North America France Feral Cats 167

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JANUARY 6, 2015

I reviewed the New Jersey volume in May 2014 and, being in Florida at the moment, I thought this was a good time to take a closer look at both the Florida volume, published just last month, and the Colorado volume, published in June 2014. (I December 2014. At first, I was taken aback by this approach. Scott & Nix, Inc.,

Colorado 247

Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 247