Critter News

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Morse, corporate vice president for research model services at Charles River Laboratories, a Wilmington company that started by breeding lab rats in 1947 and has become a major supplier of rodents for research. “To what degree the rat will replace the mouse remains to be seen,’’ said Iva S.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service , there are about 10 billion breeding birds in the US. The maximum population size may be closer to 20 billion in the fall, and 10 billion at the start of the Spring breeding season. Notably, this is a vey small number compared to the number of rodents killed by the same cats.

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JUNE 12, 2018

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are home to some of the largest assemblages of breeding seabirds in the United States. Invasive species , particularly rodents, have long been a problem on the Hawaiian archipelago. These islands and their surrounding waters are protected as part of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

The Calgary Zoo is again under scrutiny as details emerged Friday about how a capybara, a species of giant South American rodent, died after becoming caught in a hydraulic door last weekend as it was being moved from one area to another. They were a part of the zoo’s breeding program for the rare birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

610)) to a little history (“The elegant White-tailed Kite was formerly shot in large numbers by farmers who thought it threatened their chickens, although these birds feed almost entirely on insects and a few rodents” (p. 334) is how Black Skimmer is introduced). These are all informative and current.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

They used Great T**s from non-urban and urban areas, and mixed them up through breeding, to rule out any possible family history of telomere length. The benefits are many, including the availability of anthropogenic food sources, breeding boxes and warmer temperatures. The less telomere, the more aging, independently of time.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2012

It probably didn’t hurt, either, that staying close to humans meant that many of the stork’s prey animals were drawn from the roster of rodents, reptiles, and other creatures perceived as pests. But farmland hasn’t been as good a bet in recent decades as it once was. And overall, areas where good stork P.R.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

and species breeding in cavities are less affected. I frequently observed Blackbirds walking on the ground like rodents, even ducking under low tufts of grass. The Usutu Virus has spread considerably in central Europe over the last 10 years. The first detection outside Africa occurred in Vienna/Austria between 2001 and 2006.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

In short, the answer is that in the United States there are 20 billion birds at the end of the breeding and fledging season, which gets winnowed down to 10 billion by the following early spring. Other felids are all much larger, the similar sized carnivores are things like minks and ferrets, and they have very different habits.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2014

We have seen them on remote beaches hunting shorebirds and taking their eggs and they have been responsible for much of the egg loss in breeding Pied Oystercatchers along the Broome coast. They are incredibly cunning and not easily trapped.

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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? &# and everyone is very surprised and starts wondering and looking for them, and lo and behold, they are gone! Almost completely gone. No one, that’s who.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

We regularly subject rodents to pain, starvation, solitary confinement, and grotesque disfigurement. The animal-welfare groups have failed in their most ambitious efforts to protect laboratory rodents. "We With rodents off the table, though, it's not clear what's left for the activists to do. Part V: Me and My Monkey.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Flocks of cheerful birds frequent caves and cliffs where they breed. They have now evolved to survive mostly on rodents of high elevation moorlands in Ethiopia’s mountains. They will take carrion and scraps, so often hang around habitations, emitting their curious video-arcade like contact calls.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’ve observed nesting owls, fledgling owlets, owls eating small rodents, owls coughing up their pellets, a Great Horned Owl silently flying over me, a Great Gray Owl sitting regally still on a post as a boy walks up to him, a pair of Barking Owls duetting in early evening hours outside my northern Australian hut as I brushed my teeth.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2011

They breed up here, and spend their winters (usually) in the lower reaches of the Arctic and near polynyas (year round ice free waters) such as the North Water Polynya between Ellesmere Island and Groenland. The Collared Lemming is unique amongst rodents in that it changes colour in the winter to white.

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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. Those mammals consist of the previously mentioned fossorial members of Insectivora, Rodents, and bats. When Albatross alight in temporal alignment anything else is swamped out.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

On the contrary, the birds were quite satisfied with their new-found freedom and realms, and started breeding immediately after their escape in the spring of 2001, much to everyone’s surprise. They might have a negative impact on local flora, invertebrates and small rodents, either directly or indirectly through competition for food.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Upriver and closer to the vineyards, Companhia das Lezírias has been involved in supporting the TytoTagus project, a post-breeding dispersal study conducted by the ornithology department of the University of Évora. Good birding and happy drinking! Companhia das Lezírias ‘Tyto alba’ Vinhas Protegidas Tinto (2013).

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