10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2014
But as of right now there is nowhere in the United States where a birder can see a chicken and count it on his or her list despite the fact that there is a well established and long lasting Feral Chicken population in the Florida Keys. It is time for the Florida Ornithological Society to allow for the counting of Feral Chickens.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2014
” But the Feral Pigeon has much about it that should be admired. They are survivors, able to exist in urban centers, farm fields, and almost anywhere in between.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2019
But come spring, an even luckier few may even find a fellow survivor of their own kind with whom to start a family, unwittingly causing contentious debates among birders about the countability of established feral populations in the process.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2013
And so, when Salvador Ramirez left, there were feral goats on the island of San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. And so, a man named Salvador Ramirez brought a small herd of goats from Santa Catalina Island where he was to San Clemente Island where he went to live.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
The only mammals of the day were feral Nutrias (Coypus), aquatic rodents originally from southern South America released from the bankrupt fur-farms and well established here. I am checking for darker heads and necks, but the sunset is taking over… “How do you manage to tell them apart,” I ask him. Watch for the dark beaks.”
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
Like I said, Austin is changing, but in this neighborhood it is clearly still okay to leave your farm birds out and about! 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. Monk Parakeet.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2019
Traditional farming landscape of small holdings, hedges and groves draped in snow… I actually hate snow, but on days like this, cannot resist it. A hundred Smew and a thousand geese later, through the gently rolling hills we head for the Labudovo okno, by one Great Grey Shrike and several more Crested Larks.
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