10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

A wildlife rehabilitator friend, newly licensed, recently called to ask if he could feed a recovering Turkey Vulture anything besides defrosted rodents. Normally I feed vultures, as well as hawks and owls, defrosted mice and rats. My mammal-rehabber friends give me their unfortunates, as well. Did I have an answer for him.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rodents Mice Rats 206

Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

5 or 6 times over the last year I have found decapitated or otherwise "dissassembled" mice or small rats near or under my car. The first time I noticed it, it was actually a rat leg wedged through a bolt hole on my chassis that I noticed hanging under the car. Lots of squirrels, chipmunks, deer, rabbits.

Rats 40

Rats Mice Rodents Chipmunks 40

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2012

I’ve written at length in the past about the circumstances of that extinction event, how the rich endemic fauna was utterly vulnerable to introduced mammals and how waves of invaders wiped out different groups of species. Hit the rats hard and quick in a single hit. But while obvious this was also a much harder proposition.

New Zealand 174

New Zealand Rats Mammals Possums 174