10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2014

We have seen them on remote beaches hunting shorebirds and taking their eggs and they have been responsible for much of the egg loss in breeding Pied Oystercatchers along the Broome coast. Feral cat predation on Pied Oystercatcher eggs. They are incredibly cunning and not easily trapped.

Australia 157

Australia Species Feral Cats Feral 157

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

This is how he ended up living on Nonsuch, an island on which every tree had been felled, all grass eaten by goats, which had formerly been home to a yellow fever hospital and a reform school. Wingate decided that the birds needed Bermuda’s ecology as it was 300 years ago, and he was going to create it for them.

Birds 172

Birds Rats Breeding 2012 172

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2013

Setting aside the feasibility of extracting DNA from specimens and fossils, and finding a suitable similar species to donate an egg, there is much debate on whether we should bring back those species we’ve lost. The wasp that Daemon used is Certonotus fractinervis , lays its eggs on larvae of beetles. Is extinction forever?

Feral Cats 205

Feral Cats Eggs Cats Feral 205