10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Here’s hoping that Charles County, Maryland, stands up to the feral cat mafia and moves ahead with plans to require cats be licensed and special “animal fancier” licenses be required for those who harbor ten or more cats on their property.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2013

After careful consideration of all of the enlightened arguments that have been made by those in favor of Trap-Neuter-Return for feral cats in recent blog posts , we here at 10,000 Birds have been completely convinced by their well-thought-out, logical, and airtight conclusions.

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Rats Trap Neuter Return Feral Cats Neutering 238

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2021

We have to understand, though, that this was a natural predator and not one of our introduced feral cats or foxes. The chick is just to the right of the adult bird in the photo below in the shade. The moist Pied Oystercatcher nest site after the thieving. It was not a good result at all and not what we had hoped to find.

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Eggs Feral Cats Feral Fox 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2020

In the header photo the Pied Oystercatcher chick is only just to the right of the adult. Feral cats are also a problem in Broome. The Pied Oystercatchers hide the chicks in the thick vegetation once they leave the nest site. This offers a lot more protection than the exposed nest site. In the photo below it is a lot clearer.

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2020 Eggs Feral Cats Breeding 187

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Caring for the homeless cat population in Los Angeles, FixNation , offers free spay and neuter services to caregivers of community cats. FixNation sterilizes more than 70 cats each day and will have successfully trapped, neutered and returned 80,000 cats by the summer of 2012. For more information, visit [link].

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Trap Neuter Return Feral Cats Neutering Spay 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2019

In the photo above there is one chick trying to avoid the wind under the vegetation to the right of the tail of the Pied Oystercatcher on the left. In the photo below the chick in front of the adult on the right is rearranging its breast feathers! You can also see that the legs of the chicks are almost as wide as the adults!

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Eggs Feral Cats Shelters Feral 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

There is a flock of Wild Turkeys that strut around like they own the place and they might very well be right. After all, there is no hunting and while I watched the turkeys they routed a feral cat that dared come near the flock of twelve which consisted of two tom turkeys and ten hens.

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Turkey New Jersey Feral Cats New York City 170

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

You drive towards Jones Beach then hang a left down Ocean Parkway, ignoring the birder sitting next to you pointing out a possible Merlin and newly arrived Brant because you need to drive at just the right speed. Or by a cat! The bird was right there, they said, pointing vaguely north. State police can be zealous around here.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings! That is, until the ducklings grow up, are released into a pond, and greet the local feral cat colony as long-lost relatives. Teach her to do the right thing, even if it makes her a little sad, because help without knowledge is no help at all.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Feral Cats Hamburgers 257

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2013

In this case, the signs were right. Also a sign when I spot other books by the same author on the shelf in the office of a member of my thesis committee, and on my own Christmas wish list. This is a good book. Other signs: Last night, as I was reading this in the bar, a man came up to me and asked about it (please don’t do that.)

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Sparrows Feral Cats North America Feral 194

Critter News

MARCH 29, 2009

All I know is that the majority of vegetarians, ex-vegetarians, animal rights supporters, animal rescuers, animal shelter volunteers, and feral cat colony stewards that I know are women. Tags: animal rights. It's an intriguing question that would probably get quite a response at any dinner party. Frankly, I don't know.

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Feral Cats Vegetarian Animal Rights Emotional 100

Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

mikey, my stance can be seen in the posts about Project Treadstone (and if you type Project Treadstone into the Google Search box just below my half-blind, diabetic greyhound, Violet Rays, on the right, you'll get a dozen more posts). How contradictory is that? So mikey, I agree with you in theory.

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Project Treadstone Feral Cats Spay Spaying 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Two days ago I went on Facebook and queried some of my exhausted compatriots: if you could have one wish right now – anything in the world – what would it be? “I I wish for a federal law prohibiting domestic and feral cats from roaming free outdoors. Let me ponder it while I’m picking up two gulls and an egret.”.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 253

Animal Person

MAY 12, 2009

So there was no traffic, no noise, and each day we awoke to the drama of the creatures who lived right outside our door. Now I have the drama of the feral cats and of course the greyhounds. It wasn't much--clusters of mushroom-like townhouses that are ubiquitous in Florida--but it was on a lake. And a dead end.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

We went this route because he isn't putting weight on his back right leg anymore (you can even see the muscle atrophy--look at the difference--it's not because of the angle). There are now about 10 cats who are unsterilized, and next week the women at the site, with a little help from their friends, will start trapping again.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 3, 2010

She has a new book out (which I am reading right now) called One Good Dog. Enjoy the guest post (thanks Susan): As I write this, my black cat, Sasha, is going through her pantomime, telling me that she either wants to go out, or she wants to eat. My youngest daughter spotted the exceedingly shy black cat and wanted her.

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Pit Bulls Rescue Massachusetts Feral Cats 100

Animal Person

JULY 22, 2009

I'd rather trap a feral cat and have her spayed. I'm not saying give up on "animal rights," either. Maybe sugar processed with bone char isn't worth boycotting a restaurant over. Maybe it is. Arguing about that line with other vegans, though, doesn't interest me.

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2010

I wrote about atheism, diabetes (which I do think is important and stay tuned for a video about canine diabetes and how to test blood sugar), dog food, feral cats, and of course, greyhound racing. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language abolition animal rights blogging veganism vegetarianism writing.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

They range from the successful eradication of feral cats from Marion Island (hear that, Corey?) And so, I went on the American Birding Association Safari to South Africa.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 255

Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2010

From the feral cats of Project Treadstone to Charles' back surgery to problems with Violet's Vetsulin (insulin for dogs), we had more than our share of issues. As many of you know, 2009 was chock full of creature-related drama for me. And then there's now, when he doesn't use his leg at all and bounces around like a bunny.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Today I’m exploring a couple questions that have been bouncing in my head for a while…I’d love to hear your thoughts…I’m not calling into question animal rights, just the focus of the movement. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. This makes perfect sense.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Wildlife 224

Animal Person

MARCH 28, 2009

Project Treadstone If anyone in Palm Beach County wants to get involved in the Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) of feral cats, now is the time, as the county's Spay Shuttle is back in business (but for a whopping $40/cat rather than the original $15), and Pahokee ($25/cat) is open as well.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It somehow seems unfair that a bird that that has lived through innumerable dangers from when it was born, through its first migration south, a full winter, another migration to the north, breeding season, and another trip south could meet its end in the mouth of a cat. dead Common Yellowthroat Please, keep your cats indoors.

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Feral Cats Cats Killing North America 196

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2018

It obviously was not quite right and “A1” continued to try and please her for some time. We do not add debris to protect the nests and the main threat to the nests still appears to be feral cats. The migratory shorebirds are now returning to Broome with the arrival back of Common Sandpipers and Wood Sandpipers.

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Eggs Feral Cats Feral Raised 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2018

The ferry is a very nice powered catamaran, that moves right along at 18-20 knots, but in 3-4 meter seas, that will make for a pretty bumpy ride. Imported rats, Short-tailed Weasels, or Stoats as they are know as here, 0possums, and feral cats have caused the extinction of literally dozens of bird species here in New Zealand.

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Penguins New Zealand Albatross Feral Cats 125

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

He sat…his crown giving searing shafts of violet as the light caught the feathers at just the right angle. Beneath him hung two midnight-purple discs, seemingly unattached from the bird itself, so thin were the filaments of feather spine that supported them.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

Its numbers are declining rapidly due to feral cats and this duck is currently listed as vulnerable. They are difficult to reach and some are in far-off locations. Well yes, but all of the planet’s tall mountains are relatively close to some form of human habitation. Eaton’s Pintail by N.

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Birds South Africa South America Feral Cats 221

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. You’re read or seen Jurassic Park , right? (No We really are better off with extinct Dodos.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 103

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 Painted Snipe is another bird in Australia that is under threat and was actually only determined to be a species in its own right rather than a migratory species from the north, in recent years. What a horror!

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 178