10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

Apparently Alley Cat Allies only wants to protect feral cats, an introduced predator that decimates native wildlife communities. And should a group dare question the wisdom of domestic cats being outdoors they are “extremists” in the eyes of the crazy cat people.

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Extremist Groups Feral Cats Cats 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. This was where I set up my bird feeders, just one at first, then expanding as everyone expressed delight in seeing the Carolina Chickadees, Dark-eyed Juncos, and Downy Woodpeckers. There were no dead birds for weeks. I hoped it was an anomaly.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 247

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

On 14 March, 2013, the Orlando Sentinel published an opinion piece by Ted Williams under the headline “Trap, neuter, return programs make feral-cat problem worse.” Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feral cat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR. ” Wait, what?

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Feral Cats Trap Neuter Return Tnr Extremist 271

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2020

They are a large chunky bird with substantial legs when they hatch out. This offers a lot more protection than the exposed nest site. Feral cats are also a problem in Broome. The post The first Pied Oystercatcher chick of 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. In the photo below it is a lot clearer.

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2020 Eggs Feral Cats Breeding 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart. So keep that in mind.

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Killing Cats Fish Birds 274

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2015

There are sixteen pairs of Pied Oystercatchers and they have varying success at raising young birds. The main problem appears to be feral cats, but there is also predation from birds of prey and the parent Pied Oystercatchers do their utmost to protect their young. Feral cat prints at nest site-eggs gone.

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Feral Cats Eggs Feral Cats 158

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2019

They travel through the dunes where there is shade among the vegetation and some protection from predators. The two chicks appear to favour being close to the male bird and this is most likely due to the male bird being on the eggs when they hatch. Female on the left and two chicks next to the male Pied Oystercatcher.

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Eggs Feral Cats Shelters Feral 121

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

And Flamingos and Hornbills and a Secretarybird and birds with names like Hamerkop and Thick-knee and Eremomela (which I know is a scientific term, but which, when pronounced correctly, reminds me of a Yiddish term of endearment my grandmother used). And so, I went on the American Birding Association Safari to South Africa.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 251

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. A robot that feeds baby birds so I can take a nap,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. “A I wish for a federal law prohibiting domestic and feral cats from roaming free outdoors. Summer is high season.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 241

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. The plethora of approaches to the feral Cat problem is not an outcome of a diversity of great ideas; it is the ugly chimera of inappropriate compromise among biased and often poorly informed stakeholders. Which would be even worse.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 252

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Manky Muscovy Ducks Manky Muscovy Ducks By Mike • March 2, 2011 • 6 comments Tweet Share The Muscovy Duck ( Cairina moschata ) attracts more attention than most ducks, at least in North America.

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Ducks 2011 Deer New York 210

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2011

Australia is a dry continent and as such all bird-life needs to take advantage of any fresh water that is available. During wet years the bird-life has the incredible adaptability to find fresh water lakes in the middle of the continent. Derby Poo Ponds give an alternative to bird-life from all the surrounding mud.

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Feral Animals Australia Ducks Feral 170

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2017

Bank Swallow) holes, among 60+ other bird species. However easy they might be, I was there so early and the sun was so low that their white undersides were bright-WHITE and I had to observe several birds in a row just to be sure. In the Bird Identification guide, it is deservedly described as an introvert.

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Serbia Breeding Woodpeckers Feral 114

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The subject is one that comes up a lot in this blog and other bird blogs, the subject of cats and their effect on wildlife. As most people know cats, both feral and domestic, have a pretty big impact on wild birds and other wildlife, and the effect of mammals is particularly profound in New Zealand.

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New Zealand Possums SPCA Cats 114

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Feral geese run the gamut from pure white to almost entirely gray or brown. I’m still getting the hang of this particular breed of avian madness, and so defer to more enlightened readers to tell me if this bird is ganky or not: Are ganky geese even interesting to birders? We certainly see enough of them, don’t we?

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Geese 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Afraid that their ideas for the development of the area, including a ski centre, might be restricted by the nature protection regime, the officials rejected the idea. Feral Pigeon – Columba livia dom. Eurasian Sparrowhawk – Accipiter nisus. Common Buzzard – Buteo buteo. Eurasian Coot – Fulica atra.

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Bears Greece Europe Slovenia 267

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2020

The potential for contagion through clicking on links has long been acknowledged and with a desire to protect our precious readers, the links have been discontinued. You may notice a few non-commital “sp” entries and/or a few domestic/feral/hybrid forms. 149 checklists were submitted, accounting for 465 species.

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2020 Sparrows Niger Woodpeckers 151

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The series of birding workshops and meetings continued across the map, through Ulcinj, Montenegro, then Samobor, Croatia and Stip (described here ), North Macedonia, leading to Brussels, the unofficial capital of EU. Bosnian birders often bitterly joke that the only truly protected reserves in the country are minefields. Neither can I.

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Bosnia Croatia Herzegovina Slovenia 138

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book!

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

But, as with so many other species, these birds have been left to do their own whistle blowing. The global population is now estimated at 15,000 birds and, even on islands where it is relatively common, its distribution remains severely fragmented. Until recently. By 1985, the entire population was estimated to be about 320 ducks.

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Antigua and Barbuda Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Jamaica 214

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. Efforts to protect some of the most vulnerable species would be redirected to better protecting the larger swathe of species held in important habitat.

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Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2018

Over the years that we have been observing Pied Oystercatchers along the coast near Broome we have noticed that it is the male bird that always appears to construct the nest site. We do not add debris to protect the nests and the main threat to the nests still appears to be feral cats.

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Eggs Feral Cats Feral Raised 106

Critter News

JANUARY 13, 2009

The intent was to protect birds by removing one of their predators: cats. What happened was something that hurt the birds worse. It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all the feral cats from a famous Australian island to save the native seabirds.

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Feral Cats Rabbits Feral Cats 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

The lack of people does not mean we have any less extinct or threatened bird species than other countries. Even the first explorers to Australia documented there was a risk of extinction of birds and animals into the future and subsequently decided to collect as many specimens as possible! Handbook to The Birds of Australia, 1865.

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

There’s not always any rhyme or reason to the appearances birds make on beer labels, which makes finding the unexpected ones almost as exciting – for me, at least – as any birding tick. Good birding and happy drinking! And its challenges aren’t nearly as vexing as accipiter identification, I promise.

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Penguins Cooking Belgium New York 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2011

Of all the dangerous sports birders risk their necks in in the pursuit of birds, birding while driving is perhaps the most common threat to the life of a birder of all. So, inspired by a similar article on road birding in Thailand, I present road birding in New Zealand.

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New Zealand Birds Thailand Falcons 172