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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. ” California Condors are thriving now, mostly, but Osborn’s experiences in the early 2000’s were years of triumph and heartbreak.

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

10,000 Birds

I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. The plethora of approaches to the feral Cat problem is not an outcome of a diversity of great ideas; it is the ugly chimera of inappropriate compromise among biased and often poorly informed stakeholders. Which would be even worse.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

10,000 Birds

Foxes have also been known to take their eggs and there are now numerous local groups who endeavour to help the populations of Hooded Plovers along their local coastlines. The huge population of feral cats undoubtedly is having a detrimental effect on our bird life.

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