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
JUNE 12, 2014
Defining Belgrade bird specialties is the hard part – there is no defined criterion, beside attractiveness which often comes from how uncommon some species is. E.g., a few weeks ago I guided a British couple around Belgrade, visited about four major sites and found more than 60 species. My friend B.C,
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. We love them anyway.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2011
However, the species sometimes referred to as the Barbary Duck appears very much out of place just about everywhere else. 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.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2017
The species he was thrilled to see was the Mute Swan. Well, for me – no, but for Nicolaas, Mute Swans were a lifer species. He has seen them before in Cape Town, but those were introduced and feral birds, while in the Balkans they are indigenous and – countable!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 31, 2017
Bank Swallow) holes, among 60+ other bird species. 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. Common Tern – Sterna hirundo.
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