10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2015

Dear Outdoor Cat Owners/Feral Cat Supporters, Does the photo above sicken you? I have received countless numbers of wild birds mangled and/or killed by outdoor/feral cats, such as the Orange-crowned Warbler pictured here. Can your hearts be so species-specific? Outdoor/feral cat people: are you upset I posted these cat photos?

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Rescue 255

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2015

Statistics would go in favour of the Cape Glossy Starling , as I later learned.). The Feral Pigeon and the House Sparrow came the day after, when in the lush green oasis of the Sanitas nursery tea garden I noticed the announcement of the next meeting of the Botswana Bird Club. Crow-like has to be a crow, doesn’t it?

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Africa Botswana Birds Europe 203

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A recent meta study ( The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States ) that applied strict inclusion criteria and some fancy statistics estimates that 2.4 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.

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Killing Cats Fish Birds 274

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

Not how many bird species , but how many bird individuals. The Wagbachniederung is reknown for its waterfowl, shorebirds, and good breeding populations of several species that are very localized in Germany. I want to know – just roughly – how many birds I have seen in my life.

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Germany Birds Ducks Woodpeckers 176

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JANUARY 19, 2014

I am certainly not complaining though, as a repetitive working routine that will lead to around 500 species a year is better than the working routine I had in the late 2000′s, where seeing more than 250 species a year would have been extraordinary. See more than 500 species. Statistics & Maps. The Birding Diary.

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2014 France Germany Indonesia 145