10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
The other day, Minneapolis, Minnesota passed a feral cat ordinance. So I put together a “carnival” (of sorts) of Feral Cat Ordinances and Issues that samples current events across the US. From the Star Tribune : Feral cats win a round at Minneapolis City Hall. This got me wondering what other cities were doing.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service , there are about 10 billion breeding birds in the US. Also, in relatively natural, or wild, lands in much of the US the feral cat population will be limited by a healthy wild predator population. But the US Fish and Wildlife Service estimates between 97 and 976 million a year.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2011
Feral Muscovy Ducks seem to attract many of those epithets. Not only are the individual ducks hard to look at, but in groups, the feral populations create the same messes other masses of waterfowl do. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. The proposal from U.S.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2012
It is commonly kept in captivity and has therefore established many feral populations world-wide originating from escaped / released cage birds. The zoo has a small colony of genuinely wild Grey Herons (watch them compete with the seals for the fish!), Very stupid thing to do.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2014
By the end of a day, the best bird was the White-tailed Eagle that caught and ate a fish right in front of us – a species they have seen in the UK only once. Yet, my best bird was a Common Kingfisher in a quick and low fight above a wheat field – I have never seen anything like it.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 31, 2017
Yet, nothing of the calmness of my previous visits remained: a week ago, the reserve was recommended in some angling magazine and I found parked cars and a dozen people, swish-swooshing their fishing rods. Feral Pigeon – Columba livia. Black-headed Gull – Chroicocephalus ridibundus. Common Tern – Sterna hirundo.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2017
He has seen them before in Cape Town, but those were introduced and feral birds, while in the Balkans they are indigenous and – countable! Bad smell aside, methane warms the planet further, while deoxygenated water suffocates the fish. And this winter I saw a flock of 500 swans in Belgrade – nothing exciting about them?
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