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A Dietary Alternative for Feral Cats?

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Much has been made in these pages about the havoc that feral cats wreak on native birds. Maybe Daleks could be trained to focus on feral cats?). A kindhearted SPCA worker took Frankie off the streets (or, rather, out of the carpark) and helped him adjust to more traditional cat food.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

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” “You only need to change your direction,” said the cat, and ate it up. (If If you think it is rather pretentious to start a birding blog post with a Kafka story, I fully agree with you. Fortunately, some birds seem to be ok with a concrete environment – like this Blue Rock Thrush. Only for the adult.

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Three Interesting Things

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I have a larger post coming out next week as part of a special 10,000 Birds topical extravaganza, so for now just three little things. But did you know that there is a bat that specializes in eating birds that are migrating at night? Giant Bats Snatch Birds from Night Sky. Birds research' When you arrive at John F.