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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. Photographs of window-killed birds from Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Copyright © 2021 Daniel Klem, Jr. The more glass, the more bird kills. ©2012 Donna L.

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

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That was one of his cats. I new him because we enlisted his Dryfus Lion and one of his tigers to carry out experiments with bones (this is something archaeologists do). One day he said, of domestic cats, “Yeah, if those particular cats were scaled up to lion size but with the same attitude, we’d all be cat food.”

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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They range from the successful eradication of feral cats from Marion Island (hear that, Corey?) The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators. So, the best way to find a leopard is to find the kill.