10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. When the base was built and managed by the South African government, the mice were found to be a minor nuisance so five cats were brought in to manage the mice population at the base.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 263

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. If you are looking for a use of a cardboard box, one of the more interesting ideas is to use it to house an abandoned juvenile Striated Heron.

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Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

Animal Person

MAY 22, 2009

The good news is that, including the kittens' mom, there are only four cats remaining at the site who need to be sterilized! In about four months, the entire site of about 30 cats is almost done! Of course some of the original inhabitants migrated across the street to an abandoned building, and that's next.

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Project Treadstone Kittens Vegan Abandon 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

I know about the common mistakes people make when they find young birds, assuming that because they’re on the ground with no other birds in sight they must be abandoned or in need of rescue. Usually, the best course is to leave the baby where it is, or to observe for a while from a safe distance.

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Seattle Wildlife Rehabilitation Rescue Dogs 213

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2012

This forced us to abandon the vehicle and walk the 15 miles to the nearest village where a bush-mechanic walked back with us at night to our vehicle and temporarily patched the hole. On one of my two trips to Haroni we were driving along the road when we came across a Serval, a medium-sized and beautifully marked cat.

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Zimbabwe Buffalo Mozambique Birds 194

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This is Los Angeles’s premier animal-related fundraising event benefiting the following non-profit rescue organizations: The Rescue Train, Best Friends Animal Society, Animal Alliance, A Dog’s Life Rescue, Stray Cat Alliance, Four-Legged Friends Foundation, and Molly’s Mutts & Meows. This means less dogs and cats can be saved.

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Rescue Los Angeles Unwanted Pets Stray Cat 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

The authors trace the creation of swamps, wetlands, and meadows by farmers, and then the destruction of wetlands by the building of golf courses, the loss of meadows by the construction of train tracks. The geography of the northwest Bronx and changes in habitat are illustrated in detail by historic maps.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 150

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

”) We hear Dunn’s musings of the moment as he observes his target hummingbirds–paeans to their beauty of course, but also observations on their behavior, thoughts on their place in our current disruptive environment, worries for their future balanced against the joy and calm Dunn feels in their presence.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

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. On the WCS web page, Ms. What happened to Thelma and Louise? Or any of the other female Pink Pigeons (there are 8!)?

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 102

Reddit Animals

JANUARY 11, 2024

I have two cats: Tj (F, 10) and Mango (M, 3). She is an outside cat so she would spend some of the day outside and then come inside and chill with me and sleep inside. Eventually, they would even buy cat food to feed Tj because she would be around their house often. We are quite close to our next door neighbours.

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Cats Kittens Neutering Unwanted 40

Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

And of course, shuttling wildlife to and fro, and contemplating their place in our lives and our place in theirs. Based on whatever data she collected, she’d alter her course and continue her search. When I informed Dave of what Emily and I were doing, he reminded me that some frogs are fatally poisonous to cats. Translation?

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Greyhounds Dogs Ducks Litter 100