10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2011

It’s dangerous for cats to be outdoors: disease, cars, tiny towns with gun happy neighbors and Lorraine has heard me talk about the Cats Indoors Campaign –non native house cats are hard enough on native birds. According to US Fish and Wildlife domestic rural cats kill roughly 39 million birds annually.

Cats 232

Cats Leopards Kittens Unwanted 232

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Passenger Pigeon chick in aviary, 1896, photographer’s identification uncertain, photo now property of the Historical Society of Wisconsin, p. It’s a lot harder to ignore conservation campaigns to save habitat when you’ve seen the ‘photographic record’ of what happens when you do. And remembered.

Animal 264

Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

is going to have to go to Michigan or Wisconsin. With the geese rediscovered, an intensive campaign to remove introduced foxes began, and many geese were relocated from Buldir Island to islands they formerly inhabited. Photographed in Crawford County, MI, by Chris McCreedy.

Albatross 198

Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 198