10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

Mice/rats in your house or business? When queried, he admitted he had recently hired a local company to get rid of the mice in his house. ” Most people don’t understand what they’re doing when they use rat poison. A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. What to do?

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Rats Barn Owls Rodents San Francisco 252

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. many pesticides have aggressive, masculine, or other names of the like – I think it goes with the killing concept (I’m a scientist, not a marketer)).

Mountain Lions 269

Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 269

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Perhaps the most telling thing in Bloxam’s notes is the following: We saw quantities of rats with long tails, different in appearance from the common South Sea rat and resembling in color and almost in size the Norway rat. Rats did it in, as they did so many species. (I relied upon it heavily for this article.).

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Killing Rats Cooking Norway 193

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2013

And on this visit, we were there in time to see feeding for the kiwi chicks the centre was raising. The stoats, weasels, rats and the like, are unable to kill the big guys but can make short work of the chicks. Interestingly, however, the chicks, while hatched at the centre, were not bred there. So what was going on?

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New Zealand Raised Endangered Species Rats 203

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In contrast, the females need to make sure not to get duped into raising actual cuckoos – the buntings are a targeted host species ( source ). As it is critically endangered (there are only about 100 left), I think it can be forgiven for killing the occasional Pale Thrush (which is listed as Least Concern).

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Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 264