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Invasive species in Australia

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European Red Foxes were brought into Australia in the 1850′s for recreational hunting and soon spread rapidly. 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.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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Curious and inventive, he figured out he didn’t need their assistance, just their instructions to help him capture and train a young Cooper’s Hawk. Inexperienced, perhaps overly confident, he didn’t know she was one of the wildest of hawks to train. The concern possessed him. I knew no falconers.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

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If a baby bird at this stage is taken to a rehabber, it’s waste of the rehabber’s time and the chicks will miss valuable training from their parents. They give them warning calls, teaching them what is dangerous and when to hide. What human can point out a fox hidden nearby and how to avoid it? Owls are a little different.

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