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

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But they don’t live in North America. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. In some regions of the world, the carnivore landscape is taken up by many different cats at the middle and larger range, and by things like civets and mongoose at the smaller end.

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Filling the Gap Left By DeBooy’s Rail

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Clapper Rails are common but rarely seen birds across the islands and on my own island are common in a range of habitats that may surprise readers used to seeing them in wetlands in North America. Guam Rail Gallirallus owstoni. Photo copyright The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, taken from the Guam Rail page. .