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Leaping Foxes

10,000 Birds

No “gophers” etc. In Germany, our most common large mammalian predator is the Red Fox Vulpes vulpes. Foxes are very common in Germany and occur even within cities. Sometimes, red foxes can even be observed hunting during the day when rodents and fox babies are plentiful.

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California Quail, The California State Bird: Now Forming Coveys

10,000 Birds

In addition to these aerial predators, their eggs and young are often taken by squirrels, gray foxes, house cats, coyotes, gopher snakes, rattlesnakes, raccoons, American Crows and Western Scrub-Jays. Let us also not forget the two-legged predator with a shotgun.