10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

What can be done to solve the intractable problem of wildlife and feral cats? Peter, who lives in New York State, noticed two feral cats living near his house. But they are healthy, content, and they are safe. Peter, who loves cats, has saved two of them from the normally short and brutal life of a feral cat.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Wildlife 238

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

On 14 March, 2013, the Orlando Sentinel published an opinion piece by Ted Williams under the headline “Trap, neuter, return programs make feral-cat problem worse.” Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feral cat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR. Pretty standard.

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Feral Cats Trap Neuter Return Tnr Extremist 272

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. The plethora of approaches to the feral Cat problem is not an outcome of a diversity of great ideas; it is the ugly chimera of inappropriate compromise among biased and often poorly informed stakeholders. Which would be even worse.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 257

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Excuse the sudden and random departure from the typical self-aggrandizing and narcissistic ornithophilic content. What I don’t understand is why animal rights organizations almost completely ignore wildlife. That will return next month. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. This makes perfect sense.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Wildlife 222

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Often, as I have been investigating the contents of a nest by making a small hole in the side, the parent birds have come right to the nest, where they immediately begin to repair the damage even before my departure!”. Eckelberry, cofounder of the Asa Wright Nature Center and noted wildlife artist, did portraits of local birds.)

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 210

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Years ago, I became a wildlife volunteer and advocate because of a cat who caught a bird. The wildlife center was an hour away if I was lucky. That was my first trip to California Wildlife Center. I’d rescued birds before, but this time I had to face the wildlife center with a personal connection to the carnage.

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