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The Birding Rally Challenge Peru 2012

10,000 Birds

Raise global awareness of Peru’s potential as a top-notch birding destination whilst highlighting the need to conserve bird habitat across the country. Besides the birds, the teams were distracted by half a dozen primate species and rare Giant River Otters. The challenge is trying to remember them all! .”

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

10,000 Birds

I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. You can make a similar map for the small carnivores, the Mustelids, such as minks, ermines, otters, etc. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids. But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there.