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MARCH 26, 2023

And despite their tiny size, they are supposed to be as intelligent as rats which I believe are as smart or smarter than dogs and cats. Note that neither dogs nor cats have hands, but both mice and rats do. Given that both dogs and cats can use word buttons, how interesting to learn what mice are thinking.

Mice 40

Mice Feral Rats Cats 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2015

Do much birding in the city, and your thoughts will turn again and again to feral pigeons. As I have pointed out before , we owe the much-maligned sky rat a debt of gratitude. Unnatural selection indeed: None of these are traits that particularly recommend themselves in a wild bird.

Lifestyle 160

Lifestyle Falcons Rats Breeders 160

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. Tibbles did contribute, but it was a population of feral cats that did the bulk of the killing. Ironically these are the same feral cats that exterminated the wren in the first place.

Feral Cats 202

Feral Cats Eggs Cats Feral 202

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

By far the most commonly seen bird on most of the islands in the region – and the only one every islander can identify on call – is Gallus gallus (the feral chicken). Can we find a suitable island free from feral predators that would devastate the introduced species? Guam Rail Gallirallus owstoni.

Puerto Rico 192

Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands Feral 192