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A Dietary Alternative for Feral Cats?

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Maybe Daleks could be trained to focus on feral cats?). 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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Birding Balangshan (peak area) in June 2023

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Red and yellow are the colors symbolizing several different things – for example, McDonald’s, the People’s Republic of China, Mastercard, and Kodac. And they found that Tibetan Snowcocks like high elevations, gentle slopes, and low levels of vegetation. Also available as video here and here.

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Remotest Endemic Birds

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How difficult is the place to reach in terms of planes, trains and automobiles? The Heard and Mcdonald Islands are also extremely remote and Clements lists the Heard Island Shag as a full species, although Sibley/Monroe lists it as a subspecies of Imperial Shag. Basically, if you can fly or drive there, it doesn’t count.

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