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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not. Birkhead knows that these are sensitive topics.

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Cats and chicks

10,000 Birds

In Australia where the endemic prey population has evolved without cats, the problem has reached the stage where drastic measures have been imposed. There is a cat curfew for domestic animals in some states and a cull has been instigated to try to reduce the number of feral felines, currently estimated at 2 million.

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