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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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No, not an Arctic Fox, but a Red Fox in Arctic Finland I may not have seen many wolves, but I have seen lots of foxes (or what I should perhaps call red foxes). Keeping fox numbers down certainly benefits our local ground-nesting birds, especially Stone Curlews and Grey Partridges.) in the evening.

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A couple of facts :D

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• Tigers and other big cats are able to mimic other animals, tigers in specific mimic deer, bear, cattle and monkeys and the South American Margay can mimic the call of baby monkeys to lore adults. Deer, cattle, camel and goats are more closely related to dolphins and whales then they are with horses. .

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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In addition to killing birds of prey, brodifacoum has also killed coyotes, grey foxes, red foxes, kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, Pacific fishers, and other animals, including domestic dogs and cats. Syngenta warns that “Talon” is “hazardous to dogs, cats, pigs, poultry and other wildlife.”

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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Wuerthner states, “Perhaps the most significant and obvious conflict between the goals of the NAMWC and actual behavior of state agencies has to do with management of predators, particularly bears, cougars, coyotes and wolves. Those whose actions result in additional costs should bear them. The exploiter/developer pays.

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High Noon Birding in the Mountains of Los Angeles

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The beauty of this area is breathtaking, though the burned trunks are reminders that it is still recovering from the disastrous Station Fire of 2009, which scorched over 250 square miles and killed two firefighters. Probably much more of a serious threat than the bear scat we occasionally spied or the threat of poodle-bush rash.

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

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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. among the Mustilids, and Coyotes and to a lesser extent Foxes. ” Many. Probably too many.

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At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: A Book Review

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The author, conservation biologist Caroline Fox, is observing the albatross’s shadow to the side of the boat. Fox notes the albatross in her “soaking-wet notebook” and watches it circle and fly back into the masking glare. Fox does an excellent job balancing these three elements, keeping the emphasis on the birds.

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