10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2011
I took home a few of the pellets and found that the owls were feasting on grey squirrels and cottontail rabbits. But the jawbone…that was from a bat! Oehlenschlager apologized that he couldn’t say the exact species of bat. It was either a big brown bat or a hoary bat.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
This is quite a big deal for an island group that had no mammals save bats for millions of years. The island was being ravaged by rabbits that were destroying every last tree, threatening the future of three lizards and two snakes. Gerald Durrell relates one story in trying to save the endemic herpetofauna of Round Island in Mauritius.
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