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Feral Cats in American Cities

10,000 Birds

… The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. In Yuma, Arizona, they don’t take no prisoners.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

10,000 Birds

Complementing Dunn’s exquisite descriptions are his photographs of 27 species plus the mysterious Nazca hummingbird geoglyph, an abandoned Juan Fernández Firecrown nest, and the aforementioned photo of Sr. This is what the female birds saw when he displayed to them, these arresting blazes of blue and purple. (p. Jonas D’Abronzo.