10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

When I was a kid (and don’t you hate it when blog posts start like this, with the author apparently just assuming that you care about how he spent his childhood), the first pets we had were a pair of Budgerigars. ” At the same time, they are popular as pets, as they may be the best talkers of the Australian cockatoos.

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Birds Australia Sheep Zebras 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2012

Birds are, with reptiles amphibians, and mammals, the prey that feral cats kill. The fact that they have supplemental food means nothing in terms of their hunting as even well-fed pets hunt and damage bird populations. Feral cats kill huge numbers of birds.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2014

Pet stores sell mealworms in small plastic containers, which will do the the trick until the rehabber takes over; just make sure they are tiny little mini-mealworms, and not the big mean ones that can actually bite you and which would make short work of a nestling songbird. Even wild mammals – fawns, squirrels, bunnies, etc.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

The rodents eat the bait, stagger out of the building looking for water, and are easy prey for whatever carnivore happens to be passing by, be it wildlife or someone’s pet. This means not only can they continue poisoning kids, pets, and wildlife for years while the case drags through court, but now they have a monopoly on the market.

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Rats Barn Owls Rodents San Francisco 247

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Part of that research was to document human avoidance by ground mammals, and that was stark and apparent. But in the absence of Efe Pygmy hunters, we ran into ground mammals much more frequently, and not because we were doing a better job of sneaking around. During the former periods, we certainly came across animals, but rarely.

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Birds Research Humane Pets 125

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Africa is famous for its large, charismatic mammals, and the Big Five epitomize the most sought-after of these fantastic beasts. As visitors’ and the public’s interests expanded from the Big Five, and an appreciation for lesser mammals, birds and smaller wildlife has became more widespread, the term Little Five was coined.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2012

Jeff Gordon and I were wandering around the seriously disturbed habitat behind the airport hotel we stayed in outside of Budapest when a bizarre mammal about the size of an opossum crossed the path in front of us. “What the #*$% was that?!?!” ” It turns out it was a hedgehog, a Northern White-breasted Hedgehog to be exact.

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Hedgehogs Hungary Opossums North America 169

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Motomco’s Material Safety Data Sheet for “Hawk” warns that the product “is extremely toxic to fish, birds, and other wildlife” and that “dogs and predatory and scavenging mammals and birds might be poisoned if they feed upon animals that have eaten this bait.”

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 265

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Opening remarks will be made by popular Today Show special correspondent, author and pet lover Jill Rappaport. Also that evening, attendees can bid on exclusive pet prizes such as a custom-designed dog house, created by Animal Planet’s canine carpenter David Leon.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2012

Some cats, like my Aunt Bonnie and Uncle Paul’s pet, Pippa, are not bright enough to realize that, you know, that’s a freaking bear!

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Bears Cats Suffering Pets 167

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. Bottom line: so many of these well-meaning people picked up their information from the internet, from pet supply companies, or from – cringe – even veterinarians.

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Squirrels Hamburgers Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Nonprofit pet protection groups would manage the program and be responsible for ensuring that cat caretakers take the required steps. They may be “outdoor cats” with a specific owner, stray pets, feral, or may have originated in one household and are now fed or cared for by other households in the neighborhood.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 25, 2011

As a boy myself, and again as a father of three boys, I can tell you, I’ve had some pets in my life. Dogs aside, I’ve tended to plenty of small mammals and reptiles in my years, and have seen some pretty interesting things. “A new pet,&# I remarked, knowing the feeling. by Garth Stein. She rolled her eyes.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them. We are not counting insects.)

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 201

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

An abstract from a recent paper in Nature : Anthropogenic threats, such as collisions with man-made structures, vehicles, poisoning and predation by domestic pets, combine to kill billions of wildlife annually. billion mammals annually. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

As anyone who follows this blog knows, outdoor cats are a veritable holocaust for wild birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and even insects. Almost every single outdoor pet cat, feral cat, or stray kills other animals , no matter how well fed the cat is through other sources. Attention : They are your pets so pet them!

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Cats Feral Cats Litter Ohio 209

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Another paper reviews information on Oriental Pied Hornbills raiding the nests of various bird species in Singapore and even pet bird cages. Presumably, the species also not only eats fruit but also mammals and possibly birds –the HBW specifically mentions the species catching bats emerging from caves at dusk, and feeding them to juveniles.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 130

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2012

I’ve written at length in the past about the circumstances of that extinction event, how the rich endemic fauna was utterly vulnerable to introduced mammals and how waves of invaders wiped out different groups of species. Of particular interest would be the commitment of the islanders to give up having cats as pets.

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New Zealand Rats Mammals Possums 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

The primary reasons for the decline of macaws and parrots are many but habitat loss due to logging; clear cutting for crops and cattle ranching; and capture for the pet trade rank among the most threatening. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds. ararauna.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2014

We (and, by then, this blog was a wonderful “we”) enjoyed a good volume of relevant traffic from toplists like the FatBirder 500 but had to jockey for position with forums, merchant sites, and even pet sites. We deserve our own toplist, don’t we?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

The hollowed-out bones connected to the lungs for respiration that we see today as a key bird adaptation to the aerobically challenging behavior of flight existed in many dinosaurs that were as far way from being bird-like as, well, as a T-rex is from being your pet parrot. Cats have eight on each side on top, and seven on the bottom.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

But many people who live closely with animals, whether as some of the more open-minded researchers or your average pet owners, have always been well aware that this simply isn’t true. This has all sorts of implications on learning and being more resistant to the mental effects of aging that mammals suffer from.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Most mammals have a critical window of socialization, and dogs are no exception. These include dog parks, pet stores, festivals and fairs, outdoor restaurants, the veterinarian’s office, neighborhood block parties and visits to other people’s homes. Visit [link] for more tips on how to pamper your pets.

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Dogs Puppies Pets Experience 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

And I was pecked in the eye by my pet chicken, does that count?”. “I Most of mine are small mammals,” said Denise Hunter. We were working on his enclosure when he sliced my arm with his serrated bill! No need for stitches, but it took awhile to heal.”. “I I was bitten by a Ring-billed Gull , and it got infected,” said Donna Nespoli.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Wildlife Opossums 174

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2011

They actually make very good pets, becoming very tame quite quickly. They were everywhere, including a couple of them that inhabited a cage in my house for a while (they were released back where they were caught). And because it was a good year for lemmings it was a very good year for Snowy Owls , who produced large broods.

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Owls Fox Oklahoma Soreing 242

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2023

To illustrate my frequently made point that mammals are kind of evil, here is another piece of evidence. In this case, multiple individuals, most were female juveniles, were involved in watching the process of predation” So not only do mammals kill birds, but they also see this as a kind of spectator sport.

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