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African Pythons Targeted for Removal

10,000 Birds

Given the possibility for expansion onto the Florida Everglades and potential hybridization with the Burmese Python, local and State stakeholders organized search and capture campaigns. Some of these snakes had evidence of birds in their stomachs and some were gravid with up 55 eggs nearly ready to be laid. Reptiles'

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

Each year tens of thousands of these gulls go to the islands and each pair will lay three eggs. Most of these clutches of eggs will hatch to produce three fluffy and adorable chicks. By way of an example take the Western Gulls that I studied on the Farallon Islands in California.