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An Open Letter to Outdoor/Feral Cat Supporters

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Can you convince yourselves that your cat does not kill birds, when statistics show pet cats only bring home 23% of their kills? If you love your cats so much, why don’t you protect them? Can you talk about how much you love your cat, and ignore the shredded bodies of the birds it mutilates?

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Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

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This example is important because it appears that the protector species, not just the protected species, gains a benefit, the latter having been documented many times before. For the many breeding birds facing high nest-predation pressure, enemy-free space can be gained by nesting near more formidable animals for physical protection.

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The Atlas of Birds: Diversity, Behavior, and Conservation – A Book Review

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It is not an encyclopedia, though it does summarize research, explain basic concepts, and ends with a section on bird statistics. It is a fascinating book that teaches while it entertains, that offers research-informed arguments for bird protection and conservation in the guise of vibrant design.

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Western Snowy Plover

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Even our local Greater Sage Grouse , which now are receiving a huge effort at habitat protection, and restoration, were just those really cool birds out in the desert. You see, up to this point, let’s say 1972, perhaps 1973, I had never really been exposed to a “Threatened, or Endangered” species of any kind.

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How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

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A recent meta study ( The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States ) that applied strict inclusion criteria and some fancy statistics estimates that 2.4 How many birds to cats kill in the United States? billion birds, plus or minus more than a billion, are killed by cats every year in the US.

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Some Yummy-scented Winter Birding

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And with these statistics, I have just described what gulls consider a heaven. Organisations involved in the research: Bird Study and Protection Society of Serbia, League for Ornithological Action and the Birds of Prey Protection Fund. The city of Belgrade, Serbia, has about 1.7 Birds city birds Europe gulls Serbia'

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Birders: A Documentary Short Film Review

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” So, it is established: this is a film about migrant birds and the people who work to protect them in south Texas and northern Mexico. The voice, which we soon learns belongs to wildlife photographer Richard Moore, exclaims, “Migration is on!” ” and then adds, “The border wall is no barrier to birds.”

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