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What is the State Bird of New Mexico?

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Officially adopted as the state bird in 1949 , the Greater Roadrunner was once known as the “Chaparral Bird.” Car collisions, feral cats, and run-ins with hunters also cause problems, even for this speed-racer. However, in real life Greater Roadrunners are quite different.

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Guest Post: Susan Wilson

4 The Love Of Animals

Sasha, adopted at approximately nine months old, has taken roughly thirteen years to trust humans enough to be stroked while she’s standing on the floor. My second favorite rescue story is that of Hunter, a beagle-ish dog that my daughter and son-in-law adopted from a shelter in Massachusetts. The destruction was profound.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. The plethora of approaches to the feral Cat problem is not an outcome of a diversity of great ideas; it is the ugly chimera of inappropriate compromise among biased and often poorly informed stakeholders. Which would be even worse.