10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2016

This is not surprising at all due to the fact that we have monitored the Pied Oystercatcher breeding success (or lack thereof ) since 2000 along a twenty three kilometre stretch of beach and it is very rare for any of the sixteen pairs to succeed. This pair of Pied Oystercatchers has been successful on one occasion and that was in 2012.

Breeding 100

Breeding Eggs Feral Cats 2000 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2018

We have been busy walking the beach and keeping an eye on our local Pied Oystercatchers and the two pairs that laid their eggs earliest for the 2018 breeding season and successfully hatched out their chicks have now lost their chicks to predation. Pied Oystercatcher nest in the rocky sandstone. Animal prints leading to and from a raided nest.

Eggs 119

Eggs Feral Cats Feral 2018 119

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

…maybe there’s a secret Corn Crake breeding farm out in Gilgo Beach. In Rare Birds of North America (PUP, 2014), Steven N.G. Hopefully, its reaction to any feral cats in the area will be the same as its reactions to birders–run! No, I’d remember that, I didn’t see that many birds in France.

New York 158

New York North America France Feral Cats 158

10,000 Birds

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 238

Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 238

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Let’s take this thought–that some birds should be extinct–and apply it to some actual extinct birds.

Mauritius 102

Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 102