10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Most days, that seemingly random place is right at home. Keep birding and you might see a White-tailed Kite hovering as it hunts rodents and one of the few Bat Falcons in the Valley might dash into view. Their songs could cease any day now; their brushy field home is being steadily converted to housing.

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Costa Rica Sparrows Birds Rodents 247

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

The Carolina Wren pictured above was caught in a Walmart in a trap set for rodents. But be it a mouse, bird, bat, gecko, kitten … it’s a very bad way to go, and no creature should have to suffer death by torture. “A See Safe Rodent Control. He died five months later, before I could let him go.”. Glue traps!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Mice Rodents Rescue 279

Critter News

JUNE 20, 2010

For example, there was a higher-than expected number of bats passing away each year between 2004 and 2008, but the zoo didn’t do anything to decide why. Instead, it brought a new bat species into the exact place in the year 2009 — twenty-five of those creatures also passed away.

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Zoos Animal Abuse Bats Goats 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

And birders spend a lot of their time watching the tree-crowns and, in the right place, spotting many other tree-dwellers. Strictly speaking, Mammals of Madagascar is not a field guide, because some larger groups (rodents, bats) cannot be identified down to a species level following the concise descriptions and a single illustration.

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Madagascar Mammals Lemurs Seychelles 233

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

For instance, I can lay my hands on data for primates and rodents (because I’ve collected those data for research) but I don’t have comparable data for bovids (just selected data) and zero data for birds (in spreadsheets on my computer). The largest bird, forming the short bar on the right of the bird histogram, is a swan.

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 172