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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned—as “non target” animals—by your product. I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands. Thanks for your concern for wildlife, Syngenta.).

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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

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With luck, there has been enough negative feedback to stop this kind of insanity in its tracks, although it bears monitoring because there are no guarantees. They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat. A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings!

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

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I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. And for rodents and reptiles as well. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids. And for thousands of years the lizards, rodents, and birds of North America adapted to Fishers, Badgers, Wolverines, Ermines, etc.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. I didn’t.).