10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. National wildlife refuges provide premier outdoor recreational opportunities across the Nation.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today’s post is written by Monte Merrick, wildlife rehabilitator and co-director of the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center/bird ally x in Arcata, CA. I happened to work at that facility, for International Bird Rescue at the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center , part of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network.

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Los Angeles Killing Wildlife Rehabilitation San Francisco 248

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. Syngenta warns that “Talon” is “hazardous to dogs, cats, pigs, poultry and other wildlife.” Thanks for your concern for wildlife, Syngenta.).

Mountain Lions 266

Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 266

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps. Those bears live in the wild and are not used to humans.

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Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 115

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Years ago, I became a wildlife volunteer and advocate because of a cat who caught a bird. The wildlife center was an hour away if I was lucky. It was Los Angeles, after all, where mileage has no bearing on time, but where time was precious for my little rescue on this crystal morning. I scrambled for a box. I was mortified.

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Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 218

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7 ” Many. Probably too many.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256