10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2024

Note the short legs, stout body and white rump and tail I see Muntjac on virtually every birding (or dog-walking) outing, as these small Asian deer are now very numerous around my home in the Suffolk Brecks. I’ve yet to see one in the UK, but I had a memorable encounter with one while birding from a small boat on a river in Lithuania.

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Fur Deer Boars Estonia 221

Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

5 or 6 times over the last year I have found decapitated or otherwise "dissassembled" mice or small rats near or under my car. Lots of squirrels, chipmunks, deer, rabbits. Birds seem to be mostly some kind of common looking grayish speckled yard birds that I don't know what they are.

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Rats Mice Rodents Chipmunks 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Yes, it’s the same species that so many North American birders have looked for around the San Pedro River (myself included) and like those Arizona birds, our urban Gray Hawks likewise use riparian zones. Hasn’t happened yet but sometimes I see resident Rufous-naped Wrens, Red-billed Pigeons , and a Squirrel Cuckoo or two.

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Costa Rica Mice Arizona Squirrels 308

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2020

I was lucky to visit India several times, but as a keen birder I carried along only a bird book, and even upgraded it to a new edition between the trips. Similar with bird books, the maps are as accurate as can be, but do not forget that they are showing our knowledge of mammal distributions, rather than their true ranges.

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Asia Mammals Sri Lanka Bhutan 181

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2015

She has a captive-bred education bird named Xena, a Eurasian Eagle Owl. In her words: You all know how it goes, the phone rings and the caller says I have these baby birds…. We started feeding mice, mealworms, and even some wild bird mix and leftovers, as they are scavengers. But this one was a bit different.

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Raised Mice Wildlife Rehabilitation Squirrels 241

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

Normally I feed vultures, as well as hawks and owls, defrosted mice and rats. In any case: joining the already-packaged food items in my freezer are wild birds who didn’t make it. He ate through my remaining supply of rats and mice, as well as all my pinkies (hairless, day-old rodents, easily digestible and good for starvation cases).

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rodents Mice Rats 205

Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2008

We get cats, mice, birds, squirrels and raccoons. Here is a picture of some mice feeding on bird seed we threw out for the birds. Our yard is pretty animal friendly.

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Mice Raccoons Squirrels Animal Friendly 100