10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

On a parking lot, I pass by an invisible bird and continue to my local patch of the Ada Huja Danube Riverbank , where my first bird becomes the Rook. Ornithology, as well as birding, deals with wild birds. While my invisible bird didn’t exactly walked out of a henhouse, it almost did. The one I do not count.

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Feral Meat Species Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself. They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat. Birds injured wildlife orphaned wildlife screech owl wildlife rehabilitators'

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Feral Cats Hamburgers 257

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, when Salvador Ramirez left, there were feral goats on the island of San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. And so, the local subspecies of Bewick’s wren, a bird described in 1908 a “very common on all parts of the island,” was gone by the 1940’s, its habitat converted into goat flesh.

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Goats Bald Eagle Fox Feral 161

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 206

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

The drug that turned the White-rumped Vulture from the “most abundant large bird of prey in the world” in 1985 to a species that is critically endangered. This story didn’t break today, by the way. This can be a very good thing, for example bring my late ass up to date on the EU’s idiotic attitude to diclofenac.

Lions 150

Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150