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Foster to Toora

10,000 Birds

There is a family of feral foxes that I often encounter near Bennison Creek. Foxes were introduced to Australia in 1855 for hunting and have established themselves far and wide. This is an excellent trail that offers numerous bird species and there are rarely many people walking, cycling or riding horses along it. Tiger Snake.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

10,000 Birds

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Horses bolted. Yet, think a bit about what our world would be like if the Passenger Pigeon still existed.

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