10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The story of the cahow, a “Lazurus species” that was thought to be extinct for over 300 years and then discovered to be breeding on a tiny remote island in Bermuda, is part of modern birding legend. In 1951, there were 18 breeding pairs of cahows discovered on three tiny islands. This is a good read, informative and engaging.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 24, 2013

Here are some of the most common causes of/risk factors for seizures in dogs: Breed Susceptibility. Some dog breeds are prone to inherited metabolic disorders that may cause seizures. Along with breeds susceptible to low blood sugar that may cause seizures, puppies of any breed are also prone to the condition.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 19, 2012

And, speaking of poisons, talk to your vet before putting down any rat or ant poison, which can sicken your pet before it reaches its intended target. Make sure any fences are dug deeply enough, particularly for breeds genetically programmed for burrowing. Don’t Forget the Yard.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 30, 2011

For these folks, I recommend a nontraditional pet like a rat or a guinea pig. Rats are extremely cuddly, they don’t bite and they only live two years. Purebred or mixed breed? Try to find out what breeds are in your dogs background to help you better understand your dog’s behavior.

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Compassion Guinea Pigs Purebred Animal 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2014

This shearwater is a Mediterranean endemic, breeding from Sardinia and Corsica to the Adriatic and the Aegean. In the IUCN Red List, it is listed as vulnerable because of the high mortality of nestlings that become victims to rats and of adults that end up as a fishery bycatch.

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Greece Malta Croatia Birds 225

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Engber mentions that in 1972, the USDA put into place "a special exemption for rats, mice, and birds, allowing scientists to treat them however they saw fit—in cages of any size, in experiments with any degree of pain and suffering. Scientists mapped out the entire mouse genome in 2002 and the rat genome in 2004.)

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

In fact, I experienced it first hand when my pet rat developed breast cancer late in her life. Most “at-risk” breeds: poodle, Brittany spaniel, English setter, pointer, fox terrier, cocker spaniel, Boston terrier. Here are some great facts about breast cancer in dogs and cats. Thanks to PurinaCare for sending them our way.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Before you answer, here are some details to inform your decision: The first "knockout animals" were laboratory rats, whose anterior cingulate cortex have been damaged/blocked so that though they might still feel pain, they do not find it unpleasant. In other words, the perception of pain is affected.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Unfortunately for the hunters these were already all extinct, and with the introduction of cats, rats, stoats and the like the only upland game bird, the New Zealand Quail , was fast on the way out too. Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them.

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Species New Zealand Ducks Game 165

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Also from BirdLife International: In general it prefers areas where vegetation, boulders or other landscape features at ground level provide tunnels in which to shelter and to breed.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In short, I truly believe that there still are, maybe not plenty but a good number of species that to this day go unnoticed to the scientific eye, but are surely known to the indigenous peoples (the best example is the newly discovered giant rat from the Solomon Islands). The Cocha Antshrike was one of these species not long ago.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

But who can say if this is a normal occurrence at the end of the breeding season, possibly related to them being more secretive during their moult, or if this is not normal? One of the two birds I found last weekend had me convinced I was about to see a rat when I spotted movement in the nearby ground vegetation.

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Blackbirds Germany Shelters Rodents 154

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2021

The fields near the Tiaozini mudflats look very much like a lunar landscape, but this does not seem to keep a number of species from breeding there, sometimes directly on dirt roads. But now back to birds … Little Ringed Plovers also seem to like to breed directly on the road. Blandness sells.

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Birds Uganda Breeding Rats 204

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The length of each bird species account varies, depending on whether the bird is native or a “visitor” (the book’s term for migrant) or vagrant, breeding or non breeding. They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 172

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

192) from the timing of seasons to the ferocity of weather to the shape of breeding, wintering, and stopover habitat to even the size of birds themselves. Climate change looms large over all migration research, it “is reshaping every single thing about migration” (p. It is often hard to be positive.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 243

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

But you can take solace in the results at the end of the breeding year, when loafing around the intertidal are a shiny new cohort of finely plumage grey youngsters, all ready to carry on Western Gull line into the future. Take a project to remove rats from the Californian island of Anacapa (in the Channel Islands). Western Gull chick.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 257

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2019

At a parking lot, Steve hears the song of a Sardinian Warbler (a species that I have rarely observed, often after the breeding/singing season, and as a rule, half-hidden in the foliage) and plays it back from his phone, so the warbler might be tempted to check which other male dares to enter his territory. Steve answers: Bonelli’s Eagle !

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Terrapins Eagles Europe Rats 173

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2015

As I have pointed out before , we owe the much-maligned sky rat a debt of gratitude. Do much birding in the city, and your thoughts will turn again and again to feral pigeons. Take the pigeon fancy, or fancy pigeons, however you want to word it. And yet here he is, not getting eaten or run over or even looking particularly bedraggled.

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Lifestyle Falcons Rats Breeders 160

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Mt Bruce, since you ask, is the Department of Conservation’s premier endangered bird breeding centre. Long-finned Eels swam in the rivers, and in their pens the breeding Blue Ducks where whistling away. The stoats, weasels, rats and the like, are unable to kill the big guys but can make short work of the chicks.

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New Zealand Raised Endangered Species Rats 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2013

At a parking lot, Steve hears the song of a Sardinian Warbler (a species that I have rarely observed, often after the breeding/singing season, and as a rule, half-hidden in the foliage) and plays it back from his phone, so the warbler might be tempted to check which other male dares to enter his territory.

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Spain Terrapins Eagles Europe 209

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

It persists in captivity at a breeding facility on Guam and in a number of American zoos. Notwithstanding any successes we may have breeding Guam Rails in captivity we are unlikely to be successful in addressing the reason for its decline. Guam Rail Gallirallus owstoni. So wither the Guam Rail now?

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Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands Feral 181

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

The combined effects of hunting, habitat loss and predation by introduced animals like rats and mongoose have extirpated the species from some islands and reduced numbers significantly on others.

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Antigua and Barbuda Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Jamaica 213

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 101

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

The clifftop habitats along rocky shores of the North Atlantic (on both sides of the pond) abound in bird biomass during breeding bouts, for instance. There are probably other major trends that depend, for example, on latitude and timing. When Albatross alight in temporal alignment anything else is swamped out.

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Rats arrived on ships and cats, foxes and rabbits were all introduced and they were all detrimental to the bird population. The population decline is generally blamed on habitat destruction and introduced predators, but inter-breeding may also be to blame.

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 174

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2011

It worked, and the translocated birds were soon breeding. The experience was to prove critical the following year when introduced rats reached crisis levels on the remaining island of the South Island Saddleback. Today the species is secure on a large number of islands and reserves.

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Species New Zealand Rats Endangered Species 217

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season. However they will not and cannot breed, and once these individual’s natural lifespans are over, these bird populations will be lost forever.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 187

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Hopefully, the winter time in Shanghai gives the Black-faced Buntings some time to relax from the challenges of the breeding season. One Japanese study found that it arrives at its breeding grounds earlier than in the past, most likely due to increased spring temperatures. No wonder no species are named after me.

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Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 196