10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

In addition to longtails and rats, Wingate battles developers (of course), a rare Snowy Owl that kills 5% of the cahow population (Wingate shoots the owl, to the dismay of many), and the U.S. Beacon Press, 2012. Ultimately, the story always comes back to the cahows, whose population grows slowly. —————-.

Birds 167

Birds Rats Breeding 2012 167

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. SeaGrove Press, July 2013. Spanish settlers arrived in 1493 and called the birds Coterras. Other Europeans came.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 232

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick. The South Georgia Pipit is near threatened, its nests predated by rats, and is one of the main reasons that the South Georgia Heritage Trust aims to eradicate rats from the whole area. ISBN: 9780691156613 200 pp.;

Georgia 173

Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 173

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

Oxford University Press. Where the abyss touches the sky: A Booby and Noddy ecosystem. Birdingblogs.com Leigh, Egbert Giles. Tropical Forest Ecology: a view from Barro Colorado Island. Myers, P., Espinosa, C. Hammond, and T. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed July 12, 2011 at [link] a.

Mammals 174

Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 174