10,000 Birds
APRIL 1, 2013
After all, if feral cats should be allowed to roam free without fear of poisoning, being trapped-and-euthanized, or otherwise coming to harm then why not give rats the same treatment? So we announce the formation of a new, national organization dedicated to the preservation of the rat. Rats are cute!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. Birds Conservation Bell Labs poisons Hawk rat poison Motomco wild bird poisoning wildlife poisoning'
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2014
In April 2014, a 4-year-old boy in the Bronx, New York, died after eating rat poison. An owl who eats a rat poisoned by a farmer or a pest-control company will die the same death as one poisoned by a homeowner. Consumer education is the only remedy. Banner photo by Dave Harper; second by Suzie Gilbert; third by RATS.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2015
This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. Ironically, the time when a person first finds and brings in or reports an injured bird is the ideal time for education, potentially turning that person into one who appreciates wildlife for life.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Infected rats, for example, no longer shun cat urine but find it an aphrodiasic. It’s also their role as “vectors of disease,” especially toxoplasma gondii. That parasite has the bizarre, powerful ability to manipulate the brain, and reshape the behavior, of its secondary hosts.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2013
First of all: most of us don’t have much, because we spend all our money on gauze, antibiotics, and frozen rats. Speaking of which, Michele Wellard had an imprinted young Fish Crow she was teaching to be an education bird, part of which entailed getting him used to wearing leather anklets so he wouldn’t fly away during outdoor programs.
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. But, you never get the feeling that you are reading an EDUCATIONAL book. Several features emphasize the book’s educational side.
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