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Bird vs. Reptile in Key West

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KWWC also has a thriving feral chicken sideline. KWWC captures injured, sick or orphaned wild chickens, then adopts them out to homes on the mainland. It turns out that back when cigar manufacturing was big in the Keys, Cuban laborers arrived with their chickens.

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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.” Rattlesnakes are fair game, as are other reptiles, scorpions, frogs, birds, and insects. Car collisions, feral cats, and run-ins with hunters also cause problems, even for this speed-racer.

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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. Let me tell you this: They are.