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Cats and chicks

10,000 Birds

In Australia where the endemic prey population has evolved without cats, the problem has reached the stage where drastic measures have been imposed. There is a cat curfew for domestic animals in some states and a cull has been instigated to try to reduce the number of feral felines, currently estimated at 2 million.

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Fairy Pitta in Australia-a sad story

10,000 Birds

As keen birdwatchers, who just happened to have found the Night Parrots in Western Australia, they were keen to look for the Fairy Pitta at first light the next day. This was only to be the second record for Australia. Sadly it had recently been killed and was lying in the garden bed beside the path. They were also devastated.

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