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Calling all animal lovers!

4 The Love Of Animals

Erubbermaids “Roughneck” homes create the perfect winter sanctuary for feral cats Opossums, raccoons and skunks. Feral cats are exposed to cold temperatures, wind and freezing rain in the winter. Erubbermaid “Roughneck” homes offers protection from the elements. What you need to build a Rubbermaid Roughneck Feral Cat Shelter.

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Pied Oystercatcher nesting

10,000 Birds

The main problem appears to be feral cats, but there is also predation from birds of prey and the parent Pied Oystercatchers do their utmost to protect their young. Only a long term study will show this sort of information and we have also noticed how different individual Pied Oystercatchers react to different situations.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

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.

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National Justice for Animals Week

Critter News

The mascot for this year’s National Justice for Animals Week is Adam, a spunky black cat who was set on fire by two teenage girls in a vicious attack in Santa Rosa, California, as an eight-week-old feral kitten. For more information, please visit www.aldf.org.

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4 Lions are dead: Sad and all, but does it actually matter?

10,000 Birds

The elimination of vultures had its own knock on effects, such as the increase in feral dogs (now that there was more meat available for them) and corresponding increase in rabies. We live in a world of information over-saturation. This story didn’t break today, by the way. The story I linked to is dated to three weeks ago.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

10,000 Birds

It is also a story about conservation: the danger hummingbirds have always been in from all sides, natural and human-made, and the ways in which individuals, community groups, and larger organizations are working to protect them. He’s a writer, so he has written this book.

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Road birding in New Zealand

10,000 Birds

Most threatened endemics are now restricted to protected areas, but I’ve passed a couple of Weka on a country road in Neslon and I saw my first Long-tailed Cuckoo flying across the main road out of Wellington. Feral Turkey are also quite common. But these aren’t the only large ground-loving birds you might encounter.