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Osprey in Missoula

10,000 Birds

It can and will live near most any body of water with an adequate supply of fish — fresh or brackish, wild or crowded with human activity. As such success suggests, it is adaptable, taking readily to artificial nest platforms, coping well with most human developments save DDT and mercury pollution. Adaptation has its privileges!

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Are there so many birds that cats don’t matter?

10,000 Birds

which was a comparative look at apparent, visible, often in your face biomass we observe when we as diurnal primates look around us. These cats come along with farms. Farms are enormous in their effects on birds. These birds mostly left the city to feed on farms out in Concord and Lexington and other distant suburbs of Boston.

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