10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2017

That or Albuquerque… Yeah, we were pretty happy to see a bird often referred to as a “rat with wings” (by non-birders of course) because it doesn’t usually vacation in Costa Rica. Must have taken a wrong turn at the nearest parking lot.

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Costa Rica Albuquerque Eagles Panama 100

Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

5 or 6 times over the last year I have found decapitated or otherwise "dissassembled" mice or small rats near or under my car. The first time I noticed it, it was actually a rat leg wedged through a bolt hole on my chassis that I noticed hanging under the car. Probably a rat. I moved into this house about a year ago.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

When they called our state agency, they were told to “let nature take its course.” Inserts in rodent poisons that assure the public they will not kill anything but the offending rats or mice pedal the same questionable claims as those of the snake oil salesmen of bygone days. People passed the eagle often.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 189

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

But not Lisa Kelly, who riffed on it and invented “ramousky,” which is a pinkie (just-born) mouse stuffed inside an adult mouse stuffed inside a rat, and evidently big fun for vultures (all rodents are deceased before the stuffing occurs). More slang?” asked Erin, who is primarily a turtle rehabber.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Turtles Turkey Wildlife 206

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

A particularly good type of fertilizer, for example, drastically increased the population of crabs, spoiling Bermuda’s golf courses. In addition to longtails and rats, Wingate battles developers (of course), a rare Snowy Owl that kills 5% of the cahow population (Wingate shoots the owl, to the dismay of many), and the U.S.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Of course, this is the military, so why should they be any better than humanity in general?) The raptors feed on these things (mice, rats), snakes feed on these things, it’s in the wild food chain and the cat interrupts that because it’s not part of the natural setting.” They've prohibited feeding and want the animals trapped.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Compassion 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Of course, "That's not to say dogs didn't have their niche in biomedicine. Engber mentions that in 1972, the USDA put into place "a special exemption for rats, mice, and birds, allowing scientists to treat them however they saw fit—in cages of any size, in experiments with any degree of pain and suffering.

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Before you answer, here are some details to inform your decision: The first "knockout animals" were laboratory rats, whose anterior cingulate cortex have been damaged/blocked so that though they might still feel pain, they do not find it unpleasant. In other words, the perception of pain is affected.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Of course, I have to hope that rats or another mammalian predator don’t find their way to Inaccessible Island in the meantime, because that would almost surely be the end of this enigmatic and imagination-firing species.

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Science Transported Shelters South Africa 195

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

And of course there is seasonal variation. One of the two birds I found last weekend had me convinced I was about to see a rat when I spotted movement in the nearby ground vegetation. Birders appreciate them for their song and the life they add to our lawns, but they don’t note them in the sense of writing down numbers.

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Blackbirds Germany Shelters Rodents 154

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. And, of course, it shows the beauty of the world of the rain forest. Other Europeans came. Africans were brought over as slaves.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 226

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Nonnative species have huge impacts on wildlife species everywhere… mice kill seabird chicks in their burrows, rats eat endangered bird eggs, overpopulated deer clear the understory of forests, pigs root out native plants and terrestrial animals, cats kill anything they can get their paws on. For example, when the U.S.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Wildlife 202

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2021

Of course, Tiaozini also has Cattle Egret … … and the usually somewhat depressed looking Black-crowned Night Heron. And of course, there are Chinese Blackbirds breeding – ignored by the local government as they are unlikely to attract birders. Much better than some fiddly spoon-billed sandpipers.

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Birds Uganda Breeding Rats 204

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Perhaps the most telling thing in Bloxam’s notes is the following: We saw quantities of rats with long tails, different in appearance from the common South Sea rat and resembling in color and almost in size the Norway rat. Rats did it in, as they did so many species. (I relied upon it heavily for this article.).

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Killing Rats Cooking Norway 170

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

They also weren’t living in an incredibly densely populated urban space with poisoned rats to feast upon. Pale Male, on the other hand, was never banded and he lived in New York City, where poisoned rats aren’t exactly uncommon. Now, of course, plumage details change as birds molt.

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New York City Rats New York 2019 230

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Of course, habitats of all sorts attract wildlife. While the city brewer might contend with urban vermin like rats and pigeons, the country vintner generally enjoys the company of more charismatic wildlife.

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2014 Milwaukee California Industry 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Of course the ideal home for the Guam Rail would be an island or group of islands that are capable of supporting a flightless rail and which don’t have brown tree snakes. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. Guam Rail Gallirallus owstoni.

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Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands Feral 181

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2013

Eurasian Coots, Dusky Moorhens and Purple Swamphens represented the more visible end of the rail spectrum, and perhaps best of all, or worst of all, was a rat. Which may have been just an introduced Brown rat, but it also could have been a Native Water Rat. It was certainly swimming around a lot.

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Albatross Rats Belize New Zealand 151

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Sure, we try not to introduce snakes, rats, cats, goats, pigs, and a host of other creatures to isolated islands. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. And it is a rate of extinction that is speeding up! … Extinction is forever.

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Mauritius Djibouti Guam Birds 171

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2016

Of course, this is one of the great boons of traveling for a birder: you get to see stuff that would otherwise be impossible to see on your home turf. The male Pine Grosbeak is, of course, gorgeous, but the subtle shading of a young bird, below, is pretty nice too! Of course, other birds besides finches came down to the tray feeder.

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Birds New York Fox New York City 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

But of course, I do understand that bird watchers strive to see the birds that are at the lower end of the distribution of abundance, or to observe unusual behavior, so in a sense all this other bird-biomass out there consisting as it does of mundane birds is a distraction rather than an objective. This is also because mammals are large.

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 172

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.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 101

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. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. … Extinction is forever. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again.

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 174

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2013

Humans, and the rats, pigs, goats, dogs, cats, snakes, mosquitos and disease they bring with them have wiped out species after species on islands. Slowly over the course of three weeks the growing wren embryos consumed the cat until they were almost full term. The Stephen’s Island Wren is one of of a long list.

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Feral Cats Eggs Cats Feral 190