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Feral Cats in American Cities

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. … The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. In Copperas Cove, Texas. There is a petition to reverse the anti-feral cat policy.

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Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends

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The modal bird song is a song, but not all ‘songs’ are song-like, in the sense that we expect song to come out of the ‘mouth’ (bill) and to consist of modulated air currents (like human voice). Drawing of bower birds from Darwin’s 1871 volume on sexual selection.

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First Ever World Series of Birding Triathlon Part 1, Or, Our Dreams Died Early

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Brian Bielfelt is a birding biologist who has birded and lived all over the United States but currently calls Texas home. Brian getting ready to lock up the bike at The Beanery A couple of side roads where we investigated some small ponds did not net us anything but a singing Red-eyed Vireo , which was, surprisingly, our only one of the day.