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How To Help A Baby Bird

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A female red-tail may leave a nest to hunt for her two chicks and return to feed a rabbit to three chicks without noting an increase in the number of chicks a rehabber has placed there. When that isn’t possible, many raptor rehabbers keep tabs on nests and will place an abandon chick in a foster nest. Owls are a little different.

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

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Dogs are similarly dispersed across size ranges, with Foxes, Coyotes, and Wolves taking prey across different parts of the size range. among the Mustilids, and Coyotes and to a lesser extent Foxes. Plus, Coyotes eat Cats. So, in areas where Coyotes are becoming re-established, the Cat problem kinda goes away by itself.