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Pahokee Opens for Project Treadstone

Animal Person

It's a city in Florida on our largest lake, Lake Okeechobee. There are likely 30 unsterilized cats remaining, but they're doing a very good job of avoiding yours truly. Here's the biggest feral cat I've ever seen, who looks like somebody's house cat. I hadn't realized how enormous eagles are; they dwarf hawks.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

10,000 Birds

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. They range from the successful eradication of feral cats from Marion Island (hear that, Corey?) And then there were the Flamingos.

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Remotest Endemic Birds

10,000 Birds

In other words what are the chances of one of these extremely remote species showing up in a less remote place – like my backyard in Lake Worth, Florida? Its numbers are declining rapidly due to feral cats and this duck is currently listed as vulnerable. Eaton’s Pintail by N. Gough Bunting by Ross Wanless.