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Humane rat control?

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Hello, We have some big fat rats in our backyard. I think they might be taking shelter in an old decrepit shed. At night I hear things on the roof but dont know if its possums, cats, rats, who knows. Can I transport them away? They seem to know each other. They hang out in one of our trees. Ive seen 3.

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Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi

10,000 Birds

Also from BirdLife International: In general it prefers areas where vegetation, boulders or other landscape features at ground level provide tunnels in which to shelter and to breed. It is a small bird of the rail species, I think, wingless, unable to fly, but can run with great speed, shelters in the tussock, and lives in a burrow.

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