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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

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Mice/rats in your house or business? ” Most people don’t understand what they’re doing when they use rat poison. Support and follow Raptors Are The Solution ( RATS ), a Berkely, CA group whose goal is to get all poisonous rodenticides off the shelves. Call the pest control company. Alert: they’re lying. What to do?

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. Birds Conservation Bell Labs poisons Hawk rat poison Motomco wild bird poisoning wildlife poisoning'

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Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

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Sure, we try not to introduce snakes, rats, cats, goats, pigs, and a host of other creatures to isolated islands. Mauritius Owl. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. And it is a rate of extinction that is speeding up! Black-fronted Parakeet. Pagan Reed Warbler.

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The Bluebird Effect

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Songbird rehabilitation, unlike the vastly more popular raptor rehab, mostly involves raising orphans. You can lay a rat in front of a recuperating owl and walk away until the next day. Birds continue to present themselves to me, usually in need. There’s a reason raptor rehab is more popular. Baby hummers, not so much.

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Collaborative List – November 2019

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He raised his binoculars above his head and cried out with courage and clarity, “I am Sparticus!” McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl – Glaucidium costaricanum. Something needed to be done.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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The rare Rufous Fishing Owl was one of the many species seen by the group here. This included such endangered species seen by our groups in December as Rufous Fishing Owl , Western Wattled Cuckooshrike , Red-fronted Antpecker , Green-tailed Bristlebill and Rufous-winged Illadopsis. Birding Ghana rainforest'

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