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What makes a good bird guide?

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There were not too many birds around, but during such bird-breaks, he was full of information of their cultural significance and traditional beliefs, till we find the next bird, that is. However knowledgeable you might be, you cannot know for sure that an uninjured, free-ranging bird will be waiting for you where it usually does.

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

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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. Free-ranging domestic cats have been introduced globally and have contributed to multiple wildlife extinctions on islands.