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Feral Cats in American Cities

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The other day, Minneapolis, Minnesota passed a feral cat ordinance. So I put together a “carnival” (of sorts) of Feral Cat Ordinances and Issues that samples current events across the US. From the Star Tribune : Feral cats win a round at Minneapolis City Hall. This got me wondering what other cities were doing.

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Fight for the Wild

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Anyone interested in birds, bird conservation and, in particular, the strategy of feral animal control will find it fascinating. From the retired to school students Kiwis [the people] were shown planting trees, checking feral animal traps and explaining enthusiastically the reasons for their participation.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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He describes the change model he was using as follows: From my orientation, background, and bias, scholarly work must come first to document and establish a need for change.

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ABA Field Guides to Birds of Colorado and Florida

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Florida is by Bill Pranty, central Florida resident, author of A Birder’s Guide to Florida , now in its fifth edition, plus numerous articles documenting the distribution of birds in Florida, current chair of the ABA Checklist committee, and an active member of the Florida Ornithological Society.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Crawford, in “Introduction to Europe and Diffusion of Domesticated Turkeys from the America (sic)”: A document dated 24 October 1511 was an order from the Bishop of Valencia for each ship from the Islands and Tierra Firme to bring to Seville ten turkeys, half males and half females, for breeding. According to R.D.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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I would also love to have more documentation of the many books, articles, research points, and stories that Dunn relates, at the very least a list of sources. The latter is a feature that probably only a birder would love, and Jon Dunn tells us from the beginning that he is not a lister (the exception being his home in the Shetland Islands).

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

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Even the first explorers to Australia documented there was a risk of extinction of birds and animals into the future and subsequently decided to collect as many specimens as possible! The huge population of feral cats undoubtedly is having a detrimental effect on our bird life.

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