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A Dietary Alternative for Feral Cats?

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A possible solution may be hidden in recent news from New Zealand. An abandoned kitten nicknamed Frankie had staked out a McDonald’s restaurant as its feeding grounds, and for more than a year, subsisted mainly on handouts from employees and customers. And the TNR/exterminate debate rages on.

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Confusing Collared Kingfishers

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Sometimes, however, the God of Birding gets bored of tormenting birders in this way (if I learnt one thing from reading about the gods of old it is that they have the attention spans of kittens on espresso) and instead throw in a group of birds, many of which look quite different, but make them all the same species.

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