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What makes a good bird guide?

10,000 Birds

I remember one guide in the south of Africa. However knowledgeable you might be, you cannot know for sure that an uninjured, free-ranging bird will be waiting for you where it usually does. I will equally recommend a guide who finds the target bird and the one who does everything within birding ethics to find it and fails.

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

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As she continued her monologue about these cats, the Wildcat cautiously walked in our direction, never taking its eyes off of us, stiff-legged, ears motionless, striped like a standard “tiger” domestic cat but entirely in grays. He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7