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Grallards: New Zealand’s Next Extinction or Newest Species?

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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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Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania: A Review by an Atlas Novice

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The Foreword, by writer and Pennsylvania birder Scott Weidensaul, nicely summarizes the book’s contents and brings a little local history into the historic framework, with the story of Pennsylvania’s very first bird census by Alexander Wilson in 1811.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place. It is probably true that there is a near 100% overlap in the rodents and other small terrestrial animals, as well as ground bird eggs, eaten by Coyotes and feral Cats.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

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What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone. How many eggs did a pigeon lay? We have photographs and newspaper obituaries of Martha, the last living Passenger Pigeon, who died after a lifetime in captivity, mostly in the Cincinnati Zoo. We have a lot of source material.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

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He strongly believes that waterfowl hunters are the major reason we have waterfowl and wetlands in North America today. million waterfowl hunters in the U.S. ” If we are to continue preserving our wetlands, birders need to recognize their common bond with hunters and engage in conservation as vigorously as they do.

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