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The Urban Birds of Austin, Texas

10,000 Birds

Comical with their green feathers and unique faces, they have established feral populations in cities across the country since their accidental release in the 1960’s. After all, part of getting to know any city is learning its non-human inhabitants! I have always wanted to see a Monk Parakeet.

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On Dominance and Animal Birth Control

Animal Person

When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. We are a far bigger problem on this planet than the (over)population of feral cats, elephants, Canada geese, or any other creature we "manage" or want to manage, "humanely" or otherwise.