article thumbnail

10,000 Birds Launches Alley Rat Allies

10,000 Birds

Like cats, the rat was introduced over much of the world by humans. Like cats, the rat has been the victim of campaigns to make it the bad guy in terms of disease and damage wildlife. Trap-neuter-release is the only humane way to do this but it is expensive and will take a huge corps of volunteers to make it effective on a large scale.

Rats 236
article thumbnail

How To Raise A Baby Bird – Professional Advice With Photos

10,000 Birds

Sometimes people – including veterinarians who haven’t studied wild birds – suggest feeding Exact (or a similar brand) Pet Bird Formula. Like human babies, young birds are messy. If the bird is truly orphaned and needs help, the best advice is the shortest: take her to a wildlife rehabilitator. American Goldfinch.

Raised 189
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

How To Raise A Baby Bird

10,000 Birds

Sometimes people – including veterinarians who haven’t studied wild birds – suggest feeding Exact (or a similar brand) Pet Bird Formula. Like human babies, young birds are messy. If the bird is truly orphaned and needs help, the best advice is the shortest: take her to a wildlife rehabilitator. American Goldfinch.

Raised 189
article thumbnail

The Urban Birds of Austin, Texas

10,000 Birds

Because of this, areas around the city that were once sleepy are now “urban,” with humans and wildlife struggling to keep up. Again, they are fairly common in the Southwest and Mexico, but for me they felt brand new! After all, part of getting to know any city is learning its non-human inhabitants!

Austin 114
article thumbnail

Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

10,000 Birds

Fish and Wildlife Service, the American Bird Conservancy, and other groups teamed up to translocate 50 of the birds to another island, Laysan. Thanks to a little human intervention, the future looks much brighter for Millerbirds. Fish and Wildlife Service). **And Photo of the Nihoa Millerbird by S.

Cambodia 145
article thumbnail

Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

10,000 Birds

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics. The proposal from U.S.

2011 156
article thumbnail

The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: Two Guides, One Book Review

10,000 Birds

Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans. The bird illustrations in the third edition are brand new, updated by a group of eight artists working under the direction of John P. Eckelberry, cofounder of the Asa Wright Nature Center and noted wildlife artist, did portraits of local birds.)

Trinidad 207