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Feral Cats in American Cities

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The other day, Minneapolis, Minnesota passed a feral cat ordinance. So I put together a “carnival” (of sorts) of Feral Cat Ordinances and Issues that samples current events across the US. From the Star Tribune : Feral cats win a round at Minneapolis City Hall. This got me wondering what other cities were doing.

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Baby Mute Swans – “immutabilis” morph

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Contradicting this relentless shooting were efforts to establish feral populations in many regions of Europe, both within and outside its natural range. It is very likely that the white morph was directly promoted in captive breeding and favoured in releases to establish feral populations.

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

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Unlike North America, Germany has never had naturally occurring psittacines that went extinct, and the one we have is a true and complete invasive alien introduction. It is commonly kept in captivity and has therefore established many feral populations world-wide originating from escaped / released cage birds.

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A Corn Crake in New York State!

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…maybe there’s a secret Corn Crake breeding farm out in Gilgo Beach. Its buffy face and chest identified it as an immature bird (thank you, 7th edition of the National Geographic Guide to Birds of North America, soon to be reviewed here). In Rare Birds of North America (PUP, 2014), Steven N.G.

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ABA Field Guides to Birds of Colorado and Florida

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Pranty had a particular challenge for Florida, where exotics and feral forms of species like Mallard are seen throughout the state, especially in the southern peninsula. ” In addition, he adds ten exotic/feral species to the checklist in the back of the book, astericking them as non-official checklist birds.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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The chance that this was a real Turkey are not great, and the chance that Columbus actually brought breeding stock from Honduras to Spain is not great, so maybe, maybe not. Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Which would be weird.

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Filling the Gap Left By DeBooy’s Rail

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Clapper Rails are common but rarely seen birds across the islands and on my own island are common in a range of habitats that may surprise readers used to seeing them in wetlands in North America. It persists in captivity at a breeding facility on Guam and in a number of American zoos. Guam Rail Gallirallus owstoni.