10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2014
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?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2014
What is it about Owls that casts such a spell over folk? A recent experience left me upside-down in a drift of pine needles as finding myself face-to-face with a Barred Owl was such a shock that I lost the power of standing. Owls were at the forefront of my mind, but then aren’t they always? Birds Barred Owl'
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2023
Miriam Darlington determined to take on an owl quest, to immerse herself in their world, as she says, and also to find out how they are immersed in ours – to “look into the mythology, kinship, otherness and mystery that wild owls offer.” Thus her story becomes “braided with two ecologies – the ornithological and the personal.”
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
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'
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2014
In April 2014, a 4-year-old boy in the Bronx, New York, died after eating rat poison. An owl who eats a rat poisoned by a farmer or a pest-control company will die the same death as one poisoned by a homeowner. Banner photo by Dave Harper; second by Suzie Gilbert; third by RATS. No poisons are safe.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2013
Normally I feed vultures, as well as hawks and owls, defrosted mice and rats. He ate through my remaining supply of rats and mice, as well as all my pinkies (hairless, day-old rodents, easily digestible and good for starvation cases). Did I have an answer for him. Sometimes a defrosted chick. So: a broken-winged vulture came in.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
They are deemed to be useless homes for rats (which provide food for snakes and owls), ugly expanses of weeds (enjoyed by seedeaters, grosbeaks, wintering Orchard Orioles , and other species), places that need to be “improved” (evictions for pioneering ground-cuckoos and endemic ground-sparrows).
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