10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2022
Would it worry you to sit next to me on a plane or train and listen to this kind of information for several hours? Lesser Whistling Ducks are “not threatened by hunting as they are not considered good to eat” ( Wikipedia ). Well, you could always pretend to fall asleep. Or move to another seat. Lucky ducks.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2014
European Red Foxes were brought into Australia in the 1850′s for recreational hunting and soon spread rapidly. Feral cats have been able to adapt very well in Australia and have grown larger over the years and can survive in areas that you would not expect. Feral cat predation on Pied Oystercatcher eggs.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2014
State biologists are observing more and more mixed flocks and mixed pairs in the wild and these feral mallards are mating with mottled ducks, producing a hybrid offspring. Mallards did not occur in New Zealand naturally, but were released to provide hunting stock. These hybrid offspring are fertile, which further compounds the problem.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. The plethora of approaches to the feral Cat problem is not an outcome of a diversity of great ideas; it is the ugly chimera of inappropriate compromise among biased and often poorly informed stakeholders. Which would be even worse.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Both are somewhat propagandistic and probably not fully accurate, but they match other sources of information about the time and place so they can be used albeit with caution. They may have also had hunting dogs with them as well.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
Pink Pigeons were once found throughout Mauritius, but by the 19th century the population became fragmented and by 1986 only 12 or 16 pigeons remained, depending on your source of information, less than 12 by 1991. And, as we find out in a blogged coda to the episode , they can’t even take care of their eggs. On the WCS web page, Ms.
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